BOOK SUMMARY OF BUDDHISM IN CONTEMPORARY TIBET:RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND CULTURAL
IDENTITY
Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic
of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans
whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated
during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978
to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic
examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of
that revival is the focus of this book. The authors discuss ways that
Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a complex
process