The Nine Ways of Bon

The Nine Ways of Bon, David Snellgrove's 1967 study from Oxford University Press, is a landmark translation and analysis by a founding figure of Western Tibetan studies, still a standard reference more than fifty years on because it worked directly from Tibetan sources. Its strength is Snellgrove's own philological command of the material and Oxford's academic vetting. Its limit is its age: later scholarship has refined the historical relationship between Bon and Buddhism this atlas draws from it as a majority position, so a reader wanting the current debate should pair it with more recent work.