The Taming of the demons : violence and liberation in Tibetan Buddhism / Jacob P. Dalton.

The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "librar...

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Main Author: Dalton, Jacob Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
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