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Author : Samten Gyaltsen Karmay
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Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Arrow and the Spindle written by Samten Gyaltsen Karmay and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Samten Gyaltsen Karmay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The arrow and the spindle : studies in history, myths, rituals and beliefs in Tibet. [1] written by Samten Gyaltsen Karmay and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samten Gyaltsen Karmay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Arrow and the Spindle written by Samten Gyaltsen Karmay and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197533353
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Dalai Lama and the Nechung Oracle written by Christopher Bell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about two immortals whose friendship has spanned nearly five hundred years across the Tibetan plateau and beyond. The first immortal is the Dalai Lama, the emanation of a bodhisattva, an enlightened being who voluntarily takes rebirth in the world to benefit sentient beings. The second immortal is a wrathful god named Pehar, who has possessed the Nechung Oracle since the sixteenth century. This book is the first to examine the relationship between these two monolithic figures that began in the seventeenth century during the reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682). This study is also the first extensive examination of the famed Nechung Oracle and his institution. In the seventeenth century, the protector deity Pehar and his oracle at Nechung Monastery were state-sanctioned by the nascent Tibetan government, becoming the head of an expansive pantheon of worldly deities assigned to protect the newly unified country. While the Fifth Dalai Lama and his government endorsed Pehar as part of his larger unification project, the governments of later Dalai Lamas continued to expand the deity's influence, and by extension their own, by ritually establishing Pehar at monasteries and temples around Lhasa and across Tibet. Pehar's cult at Nechung Monastery came to embody the Dalai Lama's administrative control in a mutually beneficial relationship of protection and prestige, the effects of which continue to reverberate within Tibet and among the Tibetan exile community today"--
Author : Dan Martin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004121232
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Unearthing Bon Treasures written by Dan Martin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented account of one of the earliest Tibetan treasure revealers also seeks to understand the role social or familial interests and sectarian polemic have played in perpetuating and transforming the textual narratives about him.
Author : Joseph Ernest Meyer
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Protection" the Sealed Book ... written by Joseph Ernest Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Ramble
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198035084
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Navel of the Demoness written by Charles Ramble and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "Tibetanized" region of northern Nepal. While Te's people are nominally Buddhist, and engage the services of resident Tibetan Tantric priests for a range of rituals, they are also exponents of a local religion that involves blood sacrifices to wild, unconverted territorial gods and goddesses. The village is unusual in the extent to which it has maintained its local autonomy and also in the degree to which both Buddhism and the cults of local gods have been subordinated to the pragmatic demands of the village community. Charles Ramble draws on extensive fieldwork, as well as 300 years' worth of local historical archives (in Tibetan and Nepali), to re-examine the subject of confrontation between Buddhism and indigenous popular traditions in the Tibetan cultural sphere. He argues that Buddhist ritual and sacrificial cults are just two elements in a complex system of self-government that has evolved over the centuries and has developed the character of a civil religion. This civil religion, he shows, is remarkably well adapted to the preservation of the community against the constant threats posed by external attack and the self-interest of its own members. The beliefs and practices of the local popular religion, a highly developed legal tradition, and a form of government that is both democratic and accountable to its people all these are shown to have developed to promote survival in the face of past and present dangers. Ramble's account of how both secular and religious institutions serve as the building blocks of civil society opens up vistas with important implications for Tibetan culture as a whole.
Author : R. Rolf Alfred Stein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183388
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua written by R. Rolf Alfred Stein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first collection and translation in English of Rolf Stein's groundbreaking series of articles on Tibetan history, Tibetica antiqua. Drawing on the earliest available sources, Stein discusses the Tibetan transition to Buddhism, a transition influenced by both Indian and Chinese culture and cultural competition.
Author : Cristina Scherrer-Schaub
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004155171
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 14: Old Tibetan Studies written by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The material is critically examined from different perspectives, focussing on classical disciplines (history, linguistics, lexicography, philology, codicology and diplomacy).
Author : Kelzang T. Tashi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197669867
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book World of Worldly Gods written by Kelzang T. Tashi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested in the presence of an invalidating force: Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, Tashi investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to practice and engage with Bon, a religious practice that has survived over a millennium of impatience from a dominant Buddhist ecclesiastical structure. Against the backdrop of long-standing debates around practices unsystematically identified as 'bon', this book reframes the often stale and scholastic debates by providing a clear and succinct statement on how these practices should be conceived in the region. Tashi argues that the reasons for the tenacity of Bon practices and beliefs amid censures by the Buddhist priests are manifold and complex. While a significant reason for the persistence of Bon is the recency of formal Buddhist institutions in Goleng, he demonstrates that Bon beliefs are so deeply embedded in village social life that some Buddhists paradoxically feel it necessary to reach some kind of accommodation with Bon priests. Through an analysis of the relationship between Shamanic Bon and Buddhism, and the contemporary dynamics of Bhutanese society, this book tackles the longstanding concern of anthropology: cultural persistence and change. It discusses the mutual accommodation and attempted amalgamation of Buddhism and Bon, and offers fresh perspectives on the central distinguishing features of Great and Little Traditions.
Author : Wim F. Gielingh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540561507
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (615 download)
Download or read book IMPPACT Reference Model written by Wim F. Gielingh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-01-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the various aspects of the development of an integrated product and process modelling system using advanced computer technologies. It describes languages and methodologies for developing an information reference model, system architectures, a link with emerging new standards such as ISO/STEP and CIM/OSA, and a new approach for the definition of model semantics. It discusses practical aspects of the usage and integration of computer aided design, planning and production systems, and shows how the reference model can be applied. Concrete practical examples are given for two demonstration parts: a sheet metal part and a ship propeller blade. Much attention has been devoted to making the subject matter easy to understand for a wide audience. The reference model is presented in easy-to-grasp chunks in a graphical, informal way, and many figures support the text. The reader should gain a clear impression of the various technical aspects of CIM systems using modern techniques corresponding to emerging new standards. Aspects of future systems are also included.
Author : Arnold I. Finklin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Weather Station Handbook-- written by Arnold I. Finklin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Brown Gibson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Bunco Book written by Walter Brown Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William C. Fischer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fire-weather Observers' Handbook written by William C. Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Franklin W. Martin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Tropical Yams and Their Potential written by Franklin W. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
