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Dreams of power:

Tibetan Buddhism and the western imagination
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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1993 - Religion - 162 pages
This book is an account of the impact of Tibetan Buddhism upon the Western imagination. Topics such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, spiritual science and sacred technology, and the New Monasticism are discussed.
  

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This 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

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