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Buddhism and Empire: The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 22) by Michael L. Walter is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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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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- Author
- Michael L. Walter
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612401329
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Political Science, Philosophy, Religion
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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