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Prisoners of Shangri-La : Tibetan Buddhism and the West

A cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. The book reveals the misconceptions held in the West of Tibetan life and religion and examines the politics of "Lamaism" and independence from China, aiming to present both the popular and the academic.
Print Book, English, 1998
<<The>> University of Chicago Press, Chicago (Ill.), 1998
X, 283 p. 24 cm
9780226493114, 0226493113
1014635360