Author: Paine, Jeffery
Title: RE-ENCHANTMENT. Tibetan Buddhism comes to the West.
Description: New York / London, Norton & Co, 2004. 1st edition 278 pp. hardcover with dustjacket. The colourful tale of the successful flowering of an obscure, ancient Eastern sect in the modern world. In a single generation, Tibetan Buddhism developed from the faith of a remote mountain people, associated with bizarre, almost medieval, superstitions, to perhaps the most rapidly growing and celebrity-studded religion in the West. Disaffected with other religious traditions yet searching for meaning, huge numbers of Americans have found their way to the wisdom of Tibetan lamas in exile. Earthy, humorous, commonsensical, and eccentric, these flamboyant teachers; larger-than-life characters like Lama Yeshe and Chogyma Trungpa; proved to be charismatic and gifted ambassadors for their ancient religion. Little wear side edges dustjacket. Otherwise near fine.

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