The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, and Tradition

by Marco Pallis author of Peaks and Lamas, A Buddhist Spectrum, and The Way and the Mountai

Overview

The Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis'' most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas and studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition before the communist invasion of Tibet in 1949.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933316963
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	01/29/2008
Series:	The Spiritual Classics Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marco Pallis (1895-1989) was a Renaissance man: a gifted musician, composer, mountaineer, translator of “perennialist” works, and a widely respected author on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas, where at first he climbed mountains and later studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition. From 1936 onward, he was a practicing Buddhist with the Tibetan name of Thubden Tendzin

Joseph Fitzgerald is an author and editor of books on subjects that include Buddhism, Hinduism, the American Indians, Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy. Fitzgerald studied Comparative Religion at Indiana University, where he also earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. He is an adopted grandson of Thomas Yellowtail, one of the most honored American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century.