TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidson, Ronald M.
TI  - Tibetan renaissance :	: Tantric Buddhism in the rebirth of Tibetan culture 
SN  - 0231134711
U1  - EB305 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York :	
PB  - Columbia University Press,	
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - China
KW  - Tantric Buddhism
KW  - Religion
KW  - General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index

N2  - 	
How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars? Ronald M. Davidson explores how the translation and spread of esoteric Buddhist texts dramatically shaped Tibetan society and led to its rise as the center of Buddhist culture throughout Asia, replacing India as the perceived source of religious ideology and tradition. During the Tibetan Renaissance (950-1200 C.E.), monks and yogins translated an enormous number of Indian Buddhist texts. They employed the evolving literature and pr
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