Unearthing Bon Treasures - Life and Contested Legacy of a Tibetan Scripture Revealer, with a General Bibliography of Bon

This unprecedented account of one of the earliest Tibetan 'treasure revealers' also seeks to understand the role social or familial interests and sectarian polemic have played in perpetuating and transforming the textual narratives about him.

About the author

Dan Martin, Ph.D. (1991) in Tibetan Studies (Indiana University), is at present a Researcher affiliated with the Department of Indian Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His published monographs are Mandala Cosmogony (Harrassowitz, 1994) and Tibetan Histories (Serindia, 1997).

Product details

• Authors: Dan Martin
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2001
• EAN: 9789004121232
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12123-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 1007 g
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies