TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lopez,Donald S.
AU  - Thupten Jinpa,
AU  - Desideri,Ippolito
AU  - Desideri,Ippolito
TI  - Dispelling the darkness: a Jesuit's quest for the soul of Tibet 
SN  - 9780674977730
AV  - BV3420.T5 L67 2017eb
U1  - 261.2/43092 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Desideri, Ippolito,
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - Missions
KW  - China
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia
KW  - Travel
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to Inquiry concerning the doctrines of previous lives and emptiness -- Selections from Inquiry concerning the doctrines of previous lives and emptiness -- Introduction to Essence of the Christian religion -- Essence of the Christian religion -- A final thought
N2  - The Italian Jesuit Ippolito Desideri was one of the most remarkable of the many remarkable Jesuits who made the perilous journey to Buddhist lands. The present volume provides an introduction to his encounter with Buddhist philosophy, describing his efforts to save the souls of the people of Tibet. In 1721, as he waited in Tibet for a letter from Rome that would grant him papal permission to remain in Tibet and carry out his mission to convert its people to the true faith, he continued writing what he considered his magnum opus, a massive treatise, written in excellent classical Tibetan, complete with citations from Buddhist texts, to prove the errors of Buddhism. This book is a study of Desideri's unfinished masterpiece. It includes extended excerpts from Desideri's Inquiry concerning the Doctrines of Previous Lives and Emptiness, translated into a European language for the first time here. It also contains a detailed commentary, discussing Desideri's deft use of Buddhist terms and tropes to make his case. In addition, the volume includes a full translation and study of Desideri's Essence of the Christian Religion. Here, he offers his refutation of the doctrine of emptiness before going on to set forth the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith in the vocabulary of Tibetan Buddhism.--
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