The Taming Of The Demons: Violence And Liberation In Tibetan Buddhism - Jacob P. Dalton

 “This well-documented study is a great contribution to our understanding of how Tibetan Buddhism was formed and goes a long way to explain some of the more unusual aspects of this tradition. Dalton’s work displays impressive scholarship and provides a very innovative and original take on an important and yet not well-understood aspect of Tibetan Buddhism.  It will be an important book.”—Georges Dreyfus, Williams College

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“Shining a light on esoteric texts from the seldom-studied “dark” period of Tibetan Buddhism, this important book follows their ritual and rhetorical legacy into modern times, bringing us face to face with one of the greatest challenges to our interpretive abilities in all of Tibetan religious history.  The incisive questions it raises, not only about the difference between symbols and the real, but also the very valence of violence in the religious – and ethical -- life of humankind, will be ours to ponder for a long time.”—Janet Gyatso, Harvard University

(Janet Gyatso 20101123)

“Jacob Dalton''s Taming the Demons is the single best book to date on Buddhists'' (and especially Tibetans'')  struggle to come to terms with the religious sanctioning of violence. Staggering in its breath, and covering 2000 years of Buddhist textual history, the book explores Buddhist attitudes toward violence in literature as diverse as Indian monastic texts, tantric myths and rites, moral treatises, biographies, and legal speculation. A major contribution to our understanding of Buddhism.”— Josй Ignacio Cabezуn, UC Santa Barbara

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