Description: Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) qualified in medicine and chemistry at Glasgow University and in 1880 embarked on a successful career in the colonial Indian Medical Service which took him to Darjeeling, Burma and Tibet, and eventually an academic post at Calcutta Medical College. In addition, Waddell studied Sanskrit and published extensively on Tibet (his books Among the Himalayas (1899) and Lhasa and its Mysteries (1905) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). This landmark study of Tibetan Buddhism first appeared in 1895. Waddell cites earlier European scholarship, including that of Burnouf (also reissued), but emphasises that his book is based on original field research at temples and among the lay population. It covers the history of Tibetan Buddhism, its relationship with other branches of Buddhism, doctrine, places of worship, rituals and festivals, popular religion and the occult. It also includes around 200 illustrations and a substantial bibliography.
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EAN: 9781108081801
UPC: 9781108081801
ISBN: 9781108081801
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Item Length: 22.9 cm
Book Title: The Buddhism of Tibet: Or Lamaism, with its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in its Relation to Indian Buddhism
Item Height: 230mm
Item Width: 155mm
Author: Laurence Austine Waddell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Buddhism, Religious History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 1000 g
Number of Pages: 636 Pages
