Bringing Buddhism to Tibet

Bringing Buddhism to TibetBeyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State publishes books on the religious cultures of Asia. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical boundaries, the books in this series explore the cultural materials and interactions of people groups in central, south, and south east Asia, from late antiquity to the close of the medieval period.

decision-makers must transform domestic institutions and practices and reformulate their relationship to the global economy

Instead of attempting to resolve these contradictions or to attribute them to a process of social breakdown

interests in space

Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and Physically Disabled People by Raymond Lifchez examines how architectural education can be reshaped by engaging directly with the experiences of physically disabled people

and postmodern theory

Fairy-tale collections provided flights of fancy but also opportunities for reflection on the modern self

It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores

When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s

as the movement spread

who lived in what is now southern Iraq during the third millennium B

sondern deren Auswirkungen und Parallelen in der eigenen Lebenswelt verstehen

a foreign people from Inner Asia who built their capital deep in the Chinese heartland