John Bray
Author
Publisher
Blackwell Scientific
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
3rd ed.
Description
This revised edition includes summaries of each section and contains more advanced material in smaller print. Many chapters have been reorganized and some have been split into smaller parts. There is a new chapter on cellular communication. The book is intended as a reference and revision aid.
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is a landmark study of the Dba' bzhed, a text recounting the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. The narrative of Buddhism's arrival in Tibet is known from a number of versions, but the Dba' bzhed-preserved in a single manuscript-is the oldest complete copy. Although the Dba' bzhed stands at the head of a long tradition of history writing in the Tibetan language, and has been known for more than two decades, this book provides...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within...