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      Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I

      Matthew T. Kapstein

      In Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I, Matthew T. Kapstein and an international team of specialists provide a comprehensive introduction to the material and aesthetic features of the…

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      Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume II

      Matthew T. Kapstein

      Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume II explores the major categories of traditional Tibetan books, introducing their specific features and the main approaches to their study. In five major…

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      Reason’s Traces: Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought

      Matthew T. Kapstein

      Reason’s Traces is a collection of essays by one of the foremost authorities on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. It examines aspects of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, in particular…

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      The Presence of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience

      Matthew T. Kapstein

      There is perhaps no greater constant in religious intuition and experience than the presence of light. In spiritual traditions East and West, light is not only ubiquitous but something that…

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      The Tibetans

      Matthew T. Kapstein

      Presents a comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture and history. This book responds to the interest in Tibet due to the publicity about Chinese rule and growing interest in Tibetan…

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      The Life and Work of Auleshi

      Ngawang Tengye, Matthew T. Kapstein, Hugh R. Downs

      The book includes a brief history of Buddhism among the Sherpa, with new information gleaned from Tibetan written sources, the biography of Auleshi (1913-1983), in both Tibetan and annotated English…

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      The Many Faces of King Gesar: Tibetan and Central Asian Studies in Homage to Rolf A. Stein

      The Tibetan Gesar epic has known countless retellings, translations, and academic studies. The Many Faces of Ling Gesar, presents its historical, cultural, and literary aspects for the first time in…

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      Sources of Tibetan Tradition

      The most comprehensive collection of classic Tibetan works in any Western language.

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      Sources of Tibetan Tradition

      The most comprehensive collection of classic Tibetan works in any Western language.

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      Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity

      Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring…

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      The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

      Matthew T. Kapstein (Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The Divinity School and the College, University of Chicago)

      No scholarly work has as yet done justice to the rich variety of types of Tibetan discourse. This book fills this lacuna, bringing to bear the best methodological insights of…

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      The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

      Matthew T. Kapstein (Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The Divinity School and the College, University of Chicago)

      Thanks to the international celebrity of the present Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism is attracting more attention than at any time in its history. This book brings to bear insights of…

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      Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction

      Matthew T. Kapstein (Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago Divinity School)

      What does Tibetan Buddhism teach? Just what is the position of the Dalai Lama, and how will his succession be assured? This Very Short Introduction offers a brief account responding…

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