What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Dreams Of Power: Tibetan Buddhism And The Western ImaginationUser Review - Andrew - GoodreadsThis book was a real letdown. I really enjoyed Bishop's work "The Myth of Shangri-la" which is a very in depth analysis on the creators of the "raw materials" of Western imaginings of Tibet: the ... Read full review Related booksContents
Common terms and phrasesAlexandra David-Neel archetypal psychology Bardo Thodol become belief betan Bodhisattvas Buddha C. G. Jung Chenrezig Christianity claims consciousness continuity Dalai Lama David-Neel Dead death deities depth psychology dhism divine Dorje Chang East Eastern religion Evans-Wentz evoked example exile experience exploration fantasy Father frontier Gampopa geographical gods Govinda Guru high lamas Hillman Himalayas human ideas imagery images incarnation individual inner Jung's karma Karmapa landscape Lhasa Lineage Tree London mandala Maraini Marco Pallis Matthiesson meditation metaphors monastic monasticism monks mountains mystery mystical nineteenth century occult organization Pallis paradox philosophy practices Prejevalsky psyche psychic reality reincarnate lamas relationship religious ritual sacred scientific senex shamanism spiritual structure struggle symbolic teachings techniques Tibet Tibetan Book Tibetan Bud Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan culture Tibetan religion Tibetan system Tibetan text tion tradition transmission travellers twentieth century Vajrayana West West's Western fantasies Western imagination whilst wisdom wrote Yidam Younghusband References to this bookFrom other books
From Google ScholarCaught in the cross-fire: Tibet, media and promotional culturePeter Bishop - Media, Culture & Society poetics of meaning in Ruhuna (Yala) National Park, Sri LankaTariq Jazeel - 2005 - Cultural Geographies Zrcadlo orientalismu–obrazy Tibetu v českém prostředíJana Rozehnalová - 2005 - Mezinárodní vztahy ℌCrazy Wisdom,” Charisma, and the Transmission of Buddhism in the ...Sandra Bell - 1998 - Nova Religio References from web pagesBuddhism Peter Bishop libri - I Libri dell'autore: Peter Bishop - webster.it Fairleigh Dickinson University pressthe Development of Albert ... Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Cultural Geographies Bibliographic information |