Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition by Ruth Gamble

Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition

Ruth Gamble

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nonfiction history religion
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Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorj� (1284-1339) transformed reincarnation from a belief into a lasting Tibetan institution. Born the son of an itinerant, low-caste potter, Rangjung Dorj� went o...

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