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A history of Buddhism in India and Tibet : an expanded version of the Dharma's origins made by the learned scholar Deyu

Title
A history of Buddhism in India and Tibet : an expanded version of the Dharma's origins made by the learned scholar Deyu / translated by Dan Martin.
Author
Mkhas-pa-ldeʼu, active 12th century
Publication
Somerville, MA : Wisdom ; Montreal : in association with the Institute of Tibetan Classics, [2022]

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Additional Authors
  • Martin, Dan, 1953-
  • Institute of Tibetan Classics.
Description
xvii, 952 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume contains the first full English translation of a thirteenth-century history of Buddhism in India and Tibet. That means most of all a complete life of the Buddha with the history of his renunciate order and of early Buddhist authors in India. Midway through, the action moves to Tibet where there is an emphasis on the Tibetan ruling dynasty, the translators of Buddhist texts, and the lineages that transmitted doctrinal understanding, meditative insights, and practical realization. It concludes with a pessimistic account of the demise of the monastic order followed by optimism with the advent of the future Buddha Maitreya. The composer of this remarkably ecumenical Buddhist history remains anonymous but was likely a follower of rare lineages of Dzogchen and Zhijé teachings. He put together some of the most important early sources on the Tibetan imperial period that had been preserved in his times and supplies the best witnesses we have for many of them in our own times"--
Series Statement
The library of Tibetan classics ; volume 32
Uniform Title
Rgya Bod kyi chos ʼbyuṅ rgyas pa. English
Alternative Title
Rgya Bod kyi chos ʼbyuṅ rgyas pa.
Subject
  • Buddhism > Tibet Region > History > Early works to 1800
  • Buddhism > India > History > Early works to 1800
  • Tibet Region > Religion > Early works to 1800
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 9780861714728
  • 0861714725
  • 9781614297420 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021015711
OCLC
  • on1245247728
  • SCSB-14263535
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library