An account of the impact of Tibetan Buddhism upon the Western imagination, which deploys a wide range of sources and draws together diverse strands in surveying the extensive literature of travel and exploration, Jungian interpretations of Tibetan themes and the self-projection of Tibetan Buddhism within contemporary Western culture. This study in cultural psychology places the East-West exchange of spiritual ideas within social and psychological contexts. Topics such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, spiritual science and sacred technology, and the New Monasticism are also discussed. 1st edition hardcover w/ dust jacket in very good condition with slight foxing marks appearing along the top edge on the the inside of the jacket .