Publishers purple cloth binding. Endpapers lightly foxed, age tanning to pages, a GOOD clean copy entirely free of any former owner marking. Dust wrapper chipped with heavy creasing, $20 publication price intact to jacket flap. A volume in the Hermeneutics Studies in the History of Religions series.

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Title: THE CULT OF TARA- Magic and Ritual in Tibet
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 1973
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0520021924
ISBN 13: 9780520021921
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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The unique importance of Stephan Beyer's work is that it presents the living ritual of Tibetan Buddhists. The reader is made a witness to cultic proceedings through which the author guides him carefully.(Reprinted)

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“An outstanding achievement” — Times Literary Supplement “The magnitude of this work is awesome” — Virginia Quarterly Review “A major milestone in the subject” — Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies “Dazzlingly brilliant” — Philosophy East and West “A quintessential resource for the study of Tibetan Buddhist religion and ritual” — The Tibetan and Himalayan Library

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