The Water-Bird and Other Years- A History of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and after
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TOKAN TADA is member of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library) in Tokyo. Born in Akita in 1890, he studied Lamaism in 'Tibet from 1913 to 1923. During his stay there, he acted as an unofficial foreign advisor to the XIIIth Dalai Lama with whom he was acquainted in India before
Translation by T D Gonkatsang, University of Oxford
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's <i>tr๏ฟฝlku</i> (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of t