Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; term paper, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour
Catalog page 123
Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: An introduction to the 1500 year history of the globally influential Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the Dalai Lamas. Focuses on the mass Buddhist monasticism to tantric madmen and Orientalist projections about religion on the roof of the world.
Cross-listing: Cross-listed with RLST 120.