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Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua: With Additonal Materials
Contributor(s): A. Stein (Author), P. McKeown (Editor), P. McKeown (Translator)

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ISBN: 9004183388     ISBN-13: 9789004183384
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $209.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism - Tibetan
Dewey: 294.309
LCCN: 2009053997
Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
Physical Information: 420 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 53
 
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Tibetica antiqua represents the seminal work on Tibetan religious history by one of the foremost Tibetologists of the twentieth century. Herein, Stein discusses the cultural and religious interactions among Tibet, India, and China which resulted in what we now consider "Tibetan Buddhism" from the point of view of our earliest sources, the Dunhuang manuscripts. Stein first discusses the basic tool of religious language, and the extent to which translations from Chinese, often apocryphal, scriptures competed with translations from Sanskrit. Stein also analyzes evidence for the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet, as well as what a pre-Buddhist religion may have looked like, as distinct from modern Bon. Here, these groundbreaking articles are for the first time in the English language. They have been substantially updated, and supplemented with additional material from Stein's lectures at the Coll ge de France.
 
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