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| Author(s) : Dalton, Jacob P. |
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| ISBN : 0300153929 | | EAN : 9780300153927 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 312 | | Size : 242 x 166mm | | Publisher : Yale Univ Press | | Published : 2010 |
Category : Tibetan Buddhism: General
Category 2 : Western Study of Buddhism
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Synopsis:
Despite its reputation as a tradition utterly opposed to violence, Tibetan Buddhism has long been associated with seemingly violent themes in tantric rituals and demon taming etc. This academic study explores the ways in which these have played important symbolic roles in Tibetan history and culture.
"This well documented study is a great contribution to our understanding of how Tibetan Buddhism was formed and goes a long way to explain some of the more unusual aspects of the tradition. Dalton's work displays impressive scholarship and provides a very innovative and original take on an important and yet not well understood aspect of Tibetan Buddhism. It will be an important book." Georges Dreyfus.
"The Taming of the Demons is the single best book to date on Buddhists' (and especially Tibetans') struggle to come to terms with the religious sanctioning of violence. Staggering in its breadth, and covering two thousand years of Buddhist textual history, the book explores Buddhist attitudes toward violence in literature as diverse as Indian monastic texts, tantric myths and rites, moral treatises, biographies, and legal speculation. A major contribution to our understanding of Buddhism." Jose Ignacio Cabezon.
"Shining a light on esoteric texts from the seldom studied "dark" period of Tibetan Buddhism, this important book follows their ritual and rhetorical legacy into modern times, bringing us face to face with one of the greatest challenges to our interpretative abilities in all of Tibetan religious history. The incisive questions it raises, not only about the very valence of violence in the religious - and ethical - life of humankind, will be ours to ponder for a long time." Janet Gyatso. |
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