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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Carl Yamamoto
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9789004212404
• ISBN: 978-90-04-21240-4
• No. of pages: 406
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 777 g
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar; Brill
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions