Product Description: The Dharma s Gatekeepers offers an incisive analysis of one of the most important works in Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history: Sakya Pa ita s Gateway to Learning (Mkhas pa jug pa i sgo). Writing in a time when a distinctively Tibetan tradition of Buddhism was first emerging, Sakya Pa ita wanted to present Tibetan intellectuals with what he took to be an authentically Indian (and therefore, authentically Buddhist) understanding of the nature and tasks of intellectual life with a view of how scholarship was understood and practiced in the great monastic colleges of India...read more