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1 online resource (395 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Part I Starting Points; 1. Introduction; 2. Tibet as a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Paralleis; Part II Historical; 3. The Dissenting Tradition of Indian Tantra and its Partial Hegemonisation in Tibet; 4. Tibetan Tantra as a Form of Shamanism: Some Reflections on the Vajrayāna and its Sharnanic Origins; 5. Buddhism and the State in Eighth Century Tibet; 6. Shamanism, Bon and Tibetan Religion; 7. The Indus Valley Civilisation and Early Tibet |
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8. Ge-sar of gLing: The Origins and Meanings of the East Tibetan EpicPart III Religion in Contemporary Asia; 9. Tibet and the Southeast Asian Highlands: Rethinking the Intellectual Context of Tibetan Studies; 10. The Vajrayāna in the Context of Himalayan Folk Religion; 11. The Effectiveness of Goddesses, or, How Ritual Works; 12. Women, Goddesses and Auspiciousness in South Asia; Part IV Buddhism and Other Western Religions; 13. Tibetan Buddhism as a World Religion: Global Networking and its Consequences; 14. The Westernisation of Tibetan Buddhism |
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15. The Attractions of Tantra: Two Historical MomentsIndex |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 28, 2017) |
| Subject |
Tantric Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History
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Tantric Buddhism -- India -- History
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Tantric Buddhism
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351896184 |
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1351896180 |
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9781351896177 |
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1351896172 |
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9781138264847 |
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1138264849 |
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9780754652809 |
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0754652807 |
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