Forthcoming Tibetan Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Buddhism Observed

   Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu

   By Peter Moran

   Series: Anthropology of Asia

   How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism

   In-Between Bodies

   By Tanya Zivkovic

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Contextualising the seemingly esoteric and exotic aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture within the everyday, embodied and sensual sphere of religious praxis, this book centres on the social and religious lives of deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas. It explores how posterior forms – corpses, relics,...

   To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Colloquial Tibetan

   The Complete Course for Beginners

   By Jonathan Samuels

   Series: Colloquial Series

   These two 60-miniute CDs, recorded by native speakers of Tibetan, are an invaluable component of the Colloquial Tibetan course. While reinforcing material from the book, the CDs also contain a variety of additional exercises, including role-playing, and a useful guide to pronunciation. Course...

   To Be Published December 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Tibetan Buddhism

   A Foundation Course

   By Cathy Cantwell, Robert Mayer

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   This book is an introduction to important themes in Tibetan Buddhism. It does not require any prior knowledge about Buddhism as the early chapters discuss aspects of general Buddhism which are taken up and may be elaborated or reinterpreted in Tibetan Buddhism. Nevertheless, recent scholarship and...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora

   By Ana Lopes

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   This book analyses the nature of the Tibetan Buddhism in the Diaspora. Using a combination of two different academic traditions – namely, the Brazilian anthropological tradition and the American Buddhist studies tradition – it investigates the "process of cultural re-signification" of Tibetan...

   To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge