Five leading specialists in Tibetan anthropology and religion conducted case studies in the Tibet Autonomous Region and among the Tibetans of Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. There they observed the revival of the Buddhist heritage in monastic communities and among laypersons at popular pilgrimages and festivals. Demonstrating how that revival must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and the Tibetan government in exile, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a complex process of social, political and economic adaptation.

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet, Goldstein and Kapstein, eds., Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Hardcover, 207 pages, $16.50

Mervyn C. Goldstein, Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University is the author of the Tibetan-English Dictionary, Modern Spoken Tibetan, and Modern Literary Tibetan. He has conducted research with the Tibetan-speaking populations of India and Nepal in settings that range from a Tibetan refugee settlement in India to the most remote part of Nepal, where he studied an indigenous seminomadic group nestled on the Tibetan border. Recognized as one of the world's leading experts on Tibet, Goldstein has over thirty published essays concerning Tibet.