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Review title: Serious problems abound in this text
Product review: Two big problems with this text.1) The quality of the translations is often remarkably poor, as Prof. Toru Tomabechi demonstrated at length in a December 2000 article in the Journal of Indian Philosophy called "Notes on Robert Thurman's Translation of the Pañcakrama." He calls it "disastrous," among other things.2) Like much of Thurman's work, the compilation suffers from a pronounced, unacknowledged Gelukpa bias. As Lopez demonstrated in his book "Prisoners of Shrangri-la," (pg 266), 140 pages are devoted to the work of Gelukpa authors and 30 pages are devoted to all other schools combined. A more accurate (if less marketable) name probably would have been "Essentials of Tibetan Buddhism (Gelukpa variety)."
