The present work is reissue of English translation of Rene Guenon's work, Introduction Generale a I'Etude des Doctrines Hindoues.
This work instead of treating the Hindu doctrines as a "special field of research" with a view to derive results that could be of least importance to ordinary men takes an entirely different approach. The author starts out with quite other ends in view requiring an entirely different method for their realization, as well as ...
Marco Pallis was at once an incomparable authority on Buddhism,especially in its Tibetan form, a defender and protector of the Tibetantradition in the West since the tragedies of 1951, a lover of natureand a mountain climber who first encountered Tibetan Buddhismwhile climbing Himalayan peaks in the 1920s, a profound student ofother religions, especially Christianity, and a very accomplishedmusician... All of these concerns of Pallis are reflected in A ...