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02360cam a22003498a 4500 001 43EFD2106BF311DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20210313010407 008 071227s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2007052611 020 $a 1559392967 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9781559392969 (alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d NPL $d VPL $d IG# $d IOV $d SILO 043 $a a-cc-ti 050 00 $a BQ7604 $b .P688 2008 082 00 $a 294.3/923 $2 22 100 1 $a Powers, John, $d 1957- 245 1 $a A concise introduction to Tibetan Buddhism / $c John Powers. 260 $a Ithaca, N.Y. : $b Snow Lion Publications, $c 2008. 263 $a 0804 300 $a 165 p. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 0 $a The Indian background -- Origins of Tibetan Buddhism -- The Buddha -- The Buddha's teaching career -- Mahayana -- Origins -- Mahayana doctrines -- The bodhisattva path -- Some important Buddhist doctrines -- Karma and rebirth -- Dependent arising -- Meditation -- The role of meditation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism -- Stabilizing and analytical meditation -- The five Buddhist paths -- Tantra -- The place of the Tantras in Buddhist literature -- Tantra as a branch of Mahayana -- Tantric symbols -- Entering Tantric practice -- The four classes of Tantra -- The preliminary practices -- Death and dying in Tibetan Buddhism -- Tibetan religious history -- Tibet: geography and environment -- The early history of Tibet -- The period of the religious kings -- The second dissemination of Buddhism -- Mongol influence and Sakya supremacy -- The Gelukpa ascent to power -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The twentieth century -- Foreign conflicts -- The fourteenth Dalai Lama -- The interregnum period -- The fourteenth Dalai Lama assumes power -- The Chinese occupation of Tibet -- The four orders -- Similarities and differences -- The nonsectarian movement -- Nyingma -- Sakya -- Kagyu -- Geluk. 650 0 $a Buddhism $z Tibet. $z Tibet. 651 0 $a Tibet (China) $x Religion. 941 $a 4 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331011735.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20121206010329.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l UDAX314 $d 20090708133753.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=43EFD2106BF311DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search