Prisoners of Shangri La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
Awards:   Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Analytical-Descriptive Category 1999 Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Analytical-Descriptive Category 1999.
Author:   Donald Lopez
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780226493114


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   01 May 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Analytical-Descriptive Category 1999
  • Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Analytical-Descriptive Category 1999.

Overview

Donald Lopez provides in this book a cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. He reveals fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion, examines the movement for independence from China and the politics of the term ""Lamaism"", a pejorative synonym for Tibetan Buddhism. The book aims to present more than pop-culture anomalies, the history of Tibet presented is embedded in scholarly souces, and constitute a union of both the popular and academic.

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Author:   Donald Lopez
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780226493114


ISBN 10:   0226493113
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   01 May 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Prisoners of Shangri-La is a tour de force across the multi-faceted imaginary that is Tibet... Lopez is one of the pioneers uncovering the entangled histories of 'east' and 'west.' -- Religious Studies Review


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Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

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