Pocket • 1998 • Engelsk

Prisoners of Shangri-La. Tibetan buddhism and the west

Name: Prisoners of Shangri-La. Tibetan buddhism and the west
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ISBN: 9780226493107

Av Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

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Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Donald Lopez reveals here fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion. He examines, among much else, the politics of the term “Lamaism,” a pejorative synonym for Tibetan Buddhism; the various theosophical, psychedelic, and New Age purposes served by the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead; and the unexpected history of the most famous o...Vis mer

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1998

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Engelsk

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Prisoners of Shangri-La. Tibetan buddhism and the west

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