Rolf A Stein

Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua

With Additonal Materials
Herausgeber: P McKeown, Arthur / Übersetzer: P McKeown, Arthur

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first collection and translation in English of Rolf Stein's groundbreaking series of articles on Tibetan history, Tibetica antiqua. Drawing on the earliest available sources, Stein discusses the Tibetan transition to Buddhism, a transition influenced by both Indian and Chinese culture and cultural competition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2010
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1720g
• ISBN-13: 9789004183384
• ISBN-10: 9004183388
• Artikelnr.: 29457215

Autorenporträt

Rolf A. Stein (1911-1999) is widely considered to be one of the preeminent Tibetologists of the twentieth century. He published extensively in the fields of Tibetan, East- and Southeast Asian religion and society. He held professorships at the École des Hautes Études (comparative religion) and the Collège de France. Arthur P. McKeown is finishing his Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies at Harvard University with a dissertation on the Tibetan and Chinese travels of the fifteenth century Indian abbot of Vajrāsana, Śāriputra. He has recently completed, with Leonard van der Kuijp, "Bcom ldan Rag gri (1227-1305) on Indian Buddhist Logic and Epistemology: His Commentary on Dignāga's Pramāṇasamuccaya" (Austrian Academy of Social Sciences).