The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism
Subtitle: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780195152272
First sentence: Before Buddhism made its presence felt in Tibet, as it did during the eight and ninth centuries C.E., and even as the Buddha's teaching began to establish itself there, it was but one of several foreign ways of culture with which the Tibetans were becoming familiar.