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Re-enchantment
Tibetan Buddhism comes to the West
By Paine, Jeffery & Paine, Jeffrey Morton
- ISBN
- 978-0-39301-968-1
- Publisher
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2004
Paine (Father India: How Encounters with an Ancient Culture Transformed the Modern West) explores the recent transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West by focusing on the often colorful personalities involved. Readers will discover lively accounts of Western spiritual explorers such as Catholic monk Thomas Merton and Alexandra David-Neel, the first woman to reach the Tibetan capital. He also describes popular and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
