Buddhism is often portrayed as a universalising religion that transcends the local and directs attention toward a transcendent dharma. Yet, wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that, directly or indirectly, root the dharma in native soil and histor…
Wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that frame 'the local' in Buddhist discourse. Buddhism and Nativism offers a comparative study of localising responses to Buddhism in different Buddhist environments in Japan, Korea, Tibet, India and Bali.
The many canons of Tibetan Buddhism: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the N…
by Eimer, Helmut, Blezer, Henk, Germano, David, Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden), International Association for Tibetan Studies
fromBrill's Tibetan studies library