Monks and Magicians, Religious Biography in Asia

Publication Date: 
1988
Author(s): 
Phyllis Granoff (Author), Koichi Shinohara (Editor)
ISBN Number: 
9788120000000
Publisher Site/Purchasing Link: 
Mosaic Press
Author (Faculty Member): 
Phyllis Granoff

Gathers essays about the lives of Jain and Buddhist figures in India and Buddhist kings and monks in Tibet and China, and covers pilgrimage sites, funerary customs, and the spread of religious ideas.