REQUIRED

General Background
  • HH the Dalai Lama, Freedom in Exile S Wolpert, India

    Philosophy
  • J Powers, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
  • P Williams, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations

    Hermeneutics
  • Santideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life and Nagarjuna, Letter to a Friend (with its two Tibetan commentaries).
  • D Lopez, Elaborations of Emptiness

    History
  • T Sakya, The Dragon in the Land of Snows
  • M Goldstein, The Dragon and the Snow Lion

    RECOMMENDED

    General Background

  • B Paulling, A Literary Companion to India

    Philosophy
  • J Powers, A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism
  • W rahula, What the Buddha Taught

    History
  • M Goldstein, The Decline and Fall of the Lamaist State; Tibet 1913-1959.