Dreams of Power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western Imagination
Bishop, Peter
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Book ID : 14352
ISBN-10 : 81-87138-40-8 / 8187138408
ISBN-13 : 978-81-87138-40-2 / 9788187138402
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2001
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
v, 160p., Bib., Index, 21 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- An Imaginative Analysis; Tibet Discovered; Eastern Religion; Western Imagination; The Tibetan book of Dead; A Guide-book to Western Fantasy; Spiritual Science; Sacred Technology; The New Monasticism; Images of Spiritual Transmission; An Arhetypal Appraisal.
DESCRIPTION
An account of the impact of the impact of Tibetan Buddhism upon the Western imagination which deploys a wide range of sources and draws together diverse strands in surveying the extensive literature of travel and exploration. Jungian interpretations of Tibetan themes and the self projection of Tibetan Buddhism within contemporary Western culture. This important study in cultural psychology places the East-West exchange of spiritual ideas within social and psychological contexts.
