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"""The Tradition of Everlasting Bön will be an invaluable support for scholars of Tibetan traditions as well as for practitioners in the Bön lineage.""-- ""Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, author of Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath and Mind"" ""The Tradition of Everlasting Bön is a game changer in the study of Tibetan religious thought and practice. Presenting lucid translations of five key texts spanning the principal teachings of Yungdrung Bön, this is an unparalleled, essential contribution.""-- ""Matthew T. Kapstein, professor emeritus, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and the University of Chicago"" ""This remarkable volume takes the Western encounter with Yungdrung Bön to a new level, challenging the reader to encounter it as a major spiritual tradition in its own right.""-- ""Geoffrey Samuel, professor emeritus, Cardiff University, author of Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies"""

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J. F. Marc des Jardins is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions in the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University in Montreal. He teaches the social and cultural history of Chinese and Tibetan religions. His research focuses on the cultural interactions and religions along the former Sino-Tibetan frontiers, where Tibetan and Chinese cultures mixed and nourished each other. Since 1991 he has researched Tibetan indigenous ritual practices and the Bön religion of Tibet. He has published a monograph (Le sutra de la Mahamayuri: Rituel et politique dans la Chine des Tang) on the importance of esoteric Buddhism during the Tang dynasty as well as articles on Tibetan indigenous magic, tantric ritual practices, the ritual of exorcism, and others. He is the chief editor of The Journal of the International Association for Bön Research.

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