Re-enchantment (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeffery Paine
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Religion and history
- Time of Work: 1923-2004
- Setting: The United States and Tibet
- Principal Characters: Alexandra David-Neel, Thomas Merton, Harold Talbott, Jr., The fourteenth Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Lama Yeshe, Chogyam Trungpa, Robert Thurman, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo (Alice Louise Zeoli), Tenzin Palmo (Diane Perry)
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Exile or expatriates, Twenty-first century, Religion, Faith, India or East Indian people, China or Chinese people, East and West, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Buddha, Buddhism, Nuns, Tibet or Tibetan people
- Locales: United States, Tibet
Throughout history, an untold number of once-thriving religions have ceased to exist. Some of them disappeared passively, as their popularity faded and their adherents gradually died out with no younger generation to carry on the flame. Other religions were violently conquered or assimilated into competing, more materially powerful faiths.
By all odds, Tibetan Buddhism should today be numbered among the latter type of casualty, after its bloody attempted extermination by Communist China in the mid-twentieth century. The unlikely sequence of events that has allowed the religion...
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