Guru Rincophé

Ithaca, New York; Boulder, Colorado: Snow Lion Publications, 2002. First edition, 8vo, pp. 262, [2]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "This book recounts Guru Rinpoché's historic visit to Tibet and explains his continuing significance to Buddhists. In doing so, it illustrates how a country whose powerful armies overran the capital of China and installed a puppet emperor came to abandon its aggressive military campaigns: this transformation was due to Guru Rinpoché, who tamed and converted Tibet to Buddhism and thereby changed the course of Asian history" (jacket blurb).