Sam Van Schaik
Autor de Tibet: A History
Sobre El Autor
Sam Van Schaik is head of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library. He has previously worked for the International Dunhuang Project and has been a principal investigator on several major research projects. He is the author of many books including Tibet: A History, Tibetan Zen, The mostrar más Spirit of Zen, and The Spirit of Tibetan Buddhism. mostrar menos
Obras de Sam Van Schaik
Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig (1605) 41 copias
Manuscripts and travellers the Sino-Tibetan documents of a tenth-century Buddhist pilgrim (2011) 4 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Schaik, Sam Julius van
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1972
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Educación
- University of Manchester
- Ocupaciones
- Tibetologist
- Organizaciones
- British Library
International Dunhuang Project
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 271
- Popularidad
- #85,376
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 3
In Buddhist Magic, van Schaik takes a book of spells and rituals--one of the earliest that has survived--from the Silk Road site of Dunhuang as the key reference point for discussing Buddhist magic in Tibet and beyond. After situating Buddhist magic within a cross-cultural history of world magic, he discusses sources of magic in Buddhist scripture, early Buddhist rituals of protection, medicine and the spread of Buddhism, and magic users. Including material from across the vast array of Buddhist traditions, van Schaik offers readers a fascinating, nuanced view of a topic that has too long been ignored.… (más)