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Buddhism and Empire : The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet by Michael L. Walter is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Buddhism and Empire : The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet about?
This book convincingly reassesses the role of political institutions in the introduction of Buddhism under the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842), showing how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Taking original sources as a point of departure, the author persuasively argues that later sources hitherto used for the history of early Tibetan Buddhism in fact project later ideas backward, thus distorting our view of its en
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Michael L. Walter
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004175846
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Buddhism, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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