Dreams of power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western imagination

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1993-06-01otherChoice Reviews Online43 citationsclosed

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Indian and Buddhist Studies Study and Philosophy of Religion Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

Abstract

This book is an account of the impact of Tibetan Buddhism upon the Western imagination. Topics such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, spiritual science and sacred technology, and the New Monasticism are discussed.

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