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Article: Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture. By RONALD M. DAVIDSON. New York: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. xvi + 596. $75. (cloth), $32.50 (paper).
Everything you know is wrong. That phrase, a section heading for Ronald Davidson's previous book Indian Esoteric Buddhism, could be an alternative subtitle for this new study. In the most striking iconoclastic moment in the book, Davidson brings to light a previously neglected document that casts doubt upon the great translator Marpa's relationship with the Indian siddha Naropa. This relationship is fundamental to the Kagyu lineages, and Davidson's challenge to the traditional ...