Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

Provides a comprehensive survey of Indian Buddhism and its subsequent establishment in Tibet. It concentrates on the tantric period of Buddhist theory and practice, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, when the Tibertans were actively engaged in absorbing all they could find of Buddhist culture and religion into their own country. The author emphasizes the significant role played by the Central Asian kingdoms along the ancient Silk Route in the gradual process of Tibertan conversion.

First sentence: Anyone who writes nowadays about the history of Buddhism takes for granted its promulgation by Sakyamuni Buddha in the central Ganges Valley as the starting point of this religion, and it is all too easily forgotten that this great event which probably occurred about 500 B.C. was scarcely known of in the western scholarly world until the early nineteenth century and that it was only since then tha

Year

1987

Language

English

Publisher

Random House Inc (T)

Editions

1

ISBN

9780394549132

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