Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo's Guide to Central Tibet
By Matthew Akester.
Description
The earliest and best-known guidebook to Tibet, composed by the greatest modern master of Tibetan Buddhism (Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo 1820-92), has long been consulted by specialists. It was first translated by students of Giuseppe Tucci in Rome in the 1950s, when the academic study of Tibetan culture was still in its formative period. This book is the long-awaited result of an extraordinary research adventure, compiled over more than a decade of independent travel, textual archaeology, field interviews with scholars, monks and villagers, photo research, and bearing witness to the bru...
ISBN(s)
1932476601, 9781932476606
