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AHP 28: Review: Emerging Bon

CITATION Zeisler, Bettina. 2013. Review: Emerging Bon. Asian Highlands Perspectives 28:423-449. ABSTRACT Blezer, Henk (ed). 2011. Emerging Bon – The Formation of Bon Traditions in Tibet at the Turn of the First Millennium AD. PIATS 2006: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter. (Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung, 26) Andiast: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies. 368pp, Introduction (Henk Blezer), 23 illustrations, 3 charts, 5 tables. ISBN: 978-3-03809-113-4 (paperback 98.50€). The origins of Bon བོན་,1 the putative pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet or Zhangzhung ཞང་ཞུང་, remain shrouded in mystery. To Western observers it has become evident that the origins of the present systematic or 'Eternal' Bon can only be sought in the phyidar ཕྱི་དར་' the later spread (of Buddhism)', the revaluation period of the late tenth to twelfth centuries, when both rulers and religious leaders attempted to re-establish Tibet's imperial power. To this end, they did their utmost to reinvent a shadowy, prehistoric past along with the reinvention of Imperial history. Tibetan scholars, particularly those of

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