The Buddhism of Tibet Waddell Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781108081801

The Buddhism of TibetOr Lamaism, with its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in its Relation to Indian Buddhism\nAuthor(s): Laurence Austine Waddell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108081801, 978-1108081801\nSynopsis\nLaurence Austine Waddell [tel] qualified in medicine and chemistry at Glasgow University and in 1880 embarked on a successful career in the colonial Indian Medical Service which took him to Darjeeling, Burma and Tibet, and eventually an academic post at Calcutta Medical College. In addition, Waddell studied Sanskrit and published extensively on Tibet (his books Among the Himalayas [tel] and Lhasa and its Mysteries [tel] are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). This landmark study of Tibetan Buddhism first appeared in 1895. Waddell cites earlier European scholarship, including that of Burnouf (also reissued), but emphasises that his book is based on origina.