Annabella Pitkin reviews "Tibetan Zen: Discovering a Lost Tradition," by Sam van Schaik. The book is based on van Schaik’s extensive study of rare ninth- and tenth-century Tibetan manuscripts from the famous Central Asian Buddhist cave shrines at Dunhuang. These early Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts, forgotten for over a thousand years and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century, offer a window into the existence of a tradition that has been virtually unknown to scholars.
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