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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Stein, R. A. (Rolf Alfred), 1911-1999.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xxix, 384 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 24 Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 24.
Subject:	Indigenous peoples -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Religion. Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History. Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History -- Sources. Taoism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History. Buddhist literature -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History and criticism. Tibetan language -- Texts. Antiquities. Buddhism. Buddhist literature. Civilization. Indigenous peoples -- Religion. Religion. Taoism. Tibetan language. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Civilization. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Civilization -- Sources. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religion. Dunhuang Caves (China) -- Antiquities. China -- Dunhuang Caves. China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Sources. Texts.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284017

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Other authors / contributors:	McKeown, Arthur P.
ISBN:	9789004190153 9004190155 9789004183384 9004183388
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-354) and indexes. Transl. from the French. Print version record.
Summary:	Tibetica antiqua represents the seminal work on Tibetan religious history by one of the foremost Tibetologists of the twentieth century. Herein, Stein discusses the cultural and religious interactions among Tibet, India, and China which resulted in what we now consider "Tibetan Buddhism" from the point of view of our earliest sources, the Dunhuang manuscripts. Stein first discusses the basic tool of religious language, and the extent to which translations from Chinese, often apocryphal, scriptures competed with translations from Sanskrit. Stein also analyzes evidence for the introduc.
Other form:	Print version: Stein, R.A. (Rolf Alfred), 1911-1999. Rolf Stein's Tibetica antiqua. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004183384
Standard no.:	9786612786891

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