Vision and Violence - Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet

This book examines the life of Lama Zhang, key figure in the "Tibetan renaissance"-a tantric master and literary innovator who forged a new model of rulership and community that would set the standard for later religious rulers of Lhasa.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Carl S. Yamamoto, Ph.D., University of Virginia (2009), is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Towson University. His specialty is medieval Tibetan Buddhism and he is especially interested in textual production, literary genre, and the formation of lineages.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Carl Yamamoto
• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill NV
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9789004212404
• ISBN: 978-90-04-21240-4
• Seiten: 406
• Abmessung: 161 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Gewicht: 777 g
• Serien: Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar; Brill
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen