A01=Will Tuladhar-Douglas
Author_Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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Buddhist canonicity theory
Buddhist Sanskrit Texts
Canonical Closure
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Celibate Monasticism
Chariot Festival
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fifteenth-century Buddhist transformation
framing
Great Monastic Universities
Himalayan religious reform
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Indic Buddhism
kathmandu
Kathmandu Valley history
Lay Vow
Mahayana textual analysis
medieval South Asian religions
monastic
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Nepalese Buddhist
Nepalese Manuscripts
Nepalese Tradition
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Newar Buddhism
Open Canon
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Ritual Handbook
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Sanskrit Buddhist Literature
Sanskrit Newari Tibetan studies
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibeto Burman Groups
Tibeto Burmese Language
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Treasure Revealer
Treasure Tradition
Triple Jewel
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415511490
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct tradition among the many that comprise Indic Buddhism. Through a thorough study of the relevant texts in the classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit, Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the book puts forward a new thesis about how the Newars legitimated and reinvented their tradition by devising new concepts of canonicity, as such it will appeal to scholars of the history and philology of Buddhism.
Will Tuladhar-Douglas lectures in the history and anthropology of religion at the University of Aberdeen, and is Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. He has conducted fieldwork in Newar, Tibetan and Western cities and monasteries and published articles on Himalayan history and rituals, religion and technology, and Buddhism.
