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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors

by David Snellgrove

A major scholarly history of Buddhism in India and its transmission to Tibet, with particular attention to the Mahāyāna and the tantric or Vajrayāna traditions. Snellgrove draws directly on Sanskrit and Tibetan sources to explain the development of tantric ritual, iconography and doctrine.

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