Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelupka Monasticism (Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions)

by Martin A . Mills (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $143.12

  Offers an anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. This work builds up a picture of Tibetan tantric traditions.