Analysis of Tibetan Buddhism
FAIN: RO-*1435-78
Franz Michael
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Washington, DC 20015)
To publish an analysis of how until recently Buddhism provided legitimacy to political and social authority in Tibet and served for the Tibetan people as a value system, cultural cohesion and philosophy of life. PI will use Max Weber's analytical approach to the study of bureaucracy as a stratum based on a common system of beliefs and education.