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Buddhism and Empire: the Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet. By Michael L. Walter. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xxvii + 311. ISBN 10: 9004175849; 13: 9789004175846.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2011

Kazushi Iwao
Affiliation:
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. E-mail kazushi.iwao@googlemail.com

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1 After the publication of the book, Beckwith's ideas were published as Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009)Google Scholar.

2 The review by Dotson, Brandon appears in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 73 (2010), pp. 125–27CrossRefGoogle Scholar; by Hill, Nathan in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 20.4 (2010), pp. 559–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar and by Sam van Schaik in the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 6 (forthcoming).

3 Mingda, Ma 马明达, “PT1291 hao Dunhuang Zangwen wenshu yijie dingwu” PT1291 号敦煌藏文文书译解订误, Dunhuangxue jikan 敦煌学辑刊 5 (1984), pp. 1424Google Scholar.

4 Per Sørenson attributes Sba bzhed [SBA BZHED.1982] to the twelfth century. See Wangdu, Pasang and Diemberger, Hildegard, dBa' bzhed: the Royal Narrative Concerning the Bringing of the Budda's Doctrine to Tibet (Wien: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissernschaften, 2000)Google Scholar, p. xiv.