Monk Householder And Tantric Priest Newar Buddhism And Its Hierarchy Of Ritual

Many misconceptions circulate in the west about Tantric religion, whether Buddhist or Hindu, mainly because scholars have related exclusively on textual sources. Here, for the first time, is an account of how Tantric Buddhism works in practice. Monk, Householder and Tantric Priest is a detailed ethnography of the Mahayana and Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism of the Newars of the Kathmandu valley Nepal.