books.google.com.au - This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. Containing detailed...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Identity_ritual_and_state_in_Tibetan_Bud.html?id=UeAzk1WA3JcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIdentity, ritual and state in Tibetan Buddhism