Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit's Quest for the Soul of Tibet

by Thupten Jinpa (Author), Donald S. Lopez (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2017

  $44.38

  In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri wrote a treatise in classical Tibetan intended to refute key Buddhist doctrines and dispel the darkness of idolatry from Tibet. Dispelling the Darkness provides extended excerpts from this unfinished masterpiece and a full translation of a companion work.