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The papers in this collection, with one exception, originated in a session on Tibet and Himalayan Societies held at the Australian Anthropological Society conference at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in August 1988. The conveners of the session wanted as wide a representation as possible of Tibetan and Himalayan specialists from Australia and New Zealand. They suggested that participants might choose to address a common theme, "Tantra and Everyday ...
Tantric Revisionings is a collection of articles relating to Tibetan Budhdism and Indian Religion. Five of these appear here for the first time. The remainder have been published previously, though many of the publications are not easily accessible. The articles presented here are linked by a common approach to ‘religion’ as something that can be understood in at least two ways. In the first perspective, religion is a central expression of human creativity, ...
Civilized Shamans examines the nature and evolution of religion in Tibetan societies from the ninth century up to the Chinese occupation in 1950. Geoffrey Samuel argues that religion in these societies developed as a dynamic amalgam of strands of Indian Buddhism and the indigenous spirit-cults of Tibet. Samuel stresses the diversity of Tibetan societies, demonstrating that central Tibet, the Dalai Lama's government at Lhasa, and the great monastic institutions ...