Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal: The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415359191)

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.

Author: Will Tuladhar-Douglas
ISBN-10: 0415359198
ISBN-13: 9780415359191
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2006
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.34w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 23