Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
by
Peter Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
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 Kathmandu,...