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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory


by Matthew T. Kapstein

List Price: $60.00
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Sales Rank: 738386
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: February 07, 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA


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Product Description
This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.


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