Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal (Routledgecurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism)

Abstract

Many people have helped me discover, understand and write this book. I would like to thank them all, and regret that some of them are not listed here: Michael Aris, Anthony Aris, James Benson, Martin Boord, Lance Cousins, Raymond Douglas, Rebecca Douglas, Tanglewest Douglas, Ashley Drees, Gillian Evison, David Gellner, Richard Gombrich, Paul Griffiths, Michael Hutt, Harunaga Isaacson, Craig Jamieson, Viv Kendon, Marianna Kropf, Rici Lake, Jerry Losty, Anne MacDonald, Annabel Mehta, Martin Mills, Isabelle Onians, Bruce Owens, Karma Phuntsho, Michael Pollock, Vandana Prapanna, Bill Pruitt, Charles Ramble, Peter Roberts, Alex von Rospatt, Geoffery Samuel, Alexis Sanderson, Greg Sharkey, Andrew Skilton, Gene Smith, TACHIKAWA Musashi, TAKAOKA Shuchuo, Bhāvanā Devī Tulādhar-Douglas, Eleanor Tulādhar-Douglas, Nirmal Man Tulādhar, Shravan Ratna Tulādhar, Subarna Man Tulādhar, Hemraj Sakya, Min Bahadur Sakya, Tsewang Sonam, Divya Vajra Vajrācārya, Gautama Vajra Vajrācārya, Hera Kaji Vajrācārya, Manik Man Vajrācārya, Ratna Kaji Vajrācārya, Ritu Vajrācārya, Somdev Vasudev and Karma Wangyal. My fieldwork and research has been helped by fellowships, grants or the kindess of: the Boden Fund at Oxford University, who kept me at Oxford when funds were low; the Society for South Asian Studies, who sent me to Calcutta; the Lotus Research Centre in Lalitpur, which has provided me a home in Nepal for many years; friends and colleagues at the University of Aberdeen and the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research; and Pete Cranston at Oxfam who kindly saw that my field posting happened to be in Nepal. May whatever merit arises from this work go for the benefit of these and all other sentient beings.