From a November 2007 international conference in Paris, 10 essays look at how ritual practices have changed in the Tibetan world and surrounding regions of Mongolia and Nepal. Anthropologists explore
The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction a l’histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugene Burnouf, set the course f
The land of Tibet--its people, culture, and religion--has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's
The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century,Introduction a l’histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugene Burnouf, set the course fo
