Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role o

The essays collected in this book deal with the question how, throughout the history of Christianity, Christian communities have tried to construct their identi

After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China f

Provides excellent insight into both ancient and modern Tibet.

In Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism: The Life, Writings, and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen, James Duncan Gentry explores how objects of power figure in Ti