Synopsis Marco Pallis was at once an incomparable authority on Buddhism,especially in its Tibetan form, a defender and protector of the Tibetantradition in the West since the tragedies of 1951, a lover of natureand a mountain climber who first encountered Tibetan Buddhismwhile climbing Himalayan peaks in the 1920s, a profound student ofother religions, especially Christianity, and a very accomplishedmusician... All of these concerns of Pallis are reflected in A BuddhistSpectrum. It is a Buddhist work on both religion as such and religionsin their multiplicity. A major characteristic of the book is that it isconcerned with the reality of Buddhism and not just a theoreticalanalysis of its ideas. A Buddhist Spectrum is a wise book while beingthoroughly reliable from a scholarly point of view.: (Seyyed HosseinNasr, George Washington University)Marco Pallis (1895-1990), author of Peaks and Lamas, is wellknownas an exponent of Buddhism and a writer of the traditionalistschool.