Buddhism in contemporary Tibet

Abstract

With this book Melvyn C. Goldstein and Matthew T. Kapstein, two Tibetologists who know the culture, language, people, and geography of this unusual land, have added another important volume to the small but growing collection of work that offers readers informative scholarly research rather than nostalgia or polemics. By doing so, they have helped to refoliate the landscape of Tibetan studiesa landscape that had been denuded by China's earlier reluctance to grant access to outside researchers and that had consequently become overrun with bitter polemics rather than concrete information about what has actually been happening within Tibet's religious institutions.