Patrul Rinpoche on Self-Cultivation: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Life-Advice

Buddhist forms of “ethical advice”—instructions that address life’s problems and offer methods for alleviating them—are widespread in Buddhist literary history. This dissertation studies four such works, all written by the nineteenth-century Tibetan teacher Dza Patrul Rinpoche (Rdza dpal sprul O rgy...

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Main Author: Schapiro, Joshua
Other Authors: Gyatso, Janet
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2012
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10424
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10058476