SOURCE: "Approaching the Numinous: Rudolf Otto and Tibetan Tantra," in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 29, No. 4, October, 1979, pp. 467-76.
In the following essay, Lopez compares Otto's idea of the numinous with that of Tibetan Buddhist scholars, particularly the "mysterium tremendum."
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