TY - BOOK AU - Powers, John. TI - A concise introduction to Tibetan Buddhism SN - 9781559392969 U1 - 294.3923 POW PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - Snow Lion KW - Buddhism KW - Tibet Autonomous Region KW - China N1 - Includes index N2 - Lucid and economical, this introductory text delivers a brisk, fast-moving survey of Tibetan Buddhism. For many years Powers' nearly six hundred-page Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism has served as the field's most authoritative and comprehensive overview of Tibet's distinctive Buddhist tradition. A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism explains the core Buddhist doctrines and the practices of meditation and tantra and provides a survey of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism ER -