Author : Melvyn C. Goldstein
Release : 1999
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet by : Melvyn C. Goldstein
Download or read book Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet written by Melvyn C. Goldstein. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of that revival is the focus of this book.