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Book Synopsis The Yogin and the Madman by : Andrew Quintman
Download or read book The Yogin and the Madman written by Andrew Quintman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in narrative and aesthetic representation across four centuries, culminating in a detailed analysis of the genre's most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangnyön Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
Book Synopsis The Holy Madmen of Tibet by : David M. DiValerio
Download or read book The Holy Madmen of Tibet written by David M. DiValerio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note:Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Lives and Lives of the Madmen of U and Tsang -- Hagiography and History -- The Life of the Madman of U (1458-1532) -- The Life of the Madman of Tsang (1452-1507) -- Chapter 2: Of Scripture and Bone: The Tantric Discipline of the Madmen of U and Tsang -- The Practice of the Observance -- The Secret Practice, the Insane Observance -- "You, the Hero, Glorious Heruka Himself ..."--Tantric Literalism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Sainthood in the Making: The Madmen of U and Tsang in Public -- The Drum Sound of Their Fame -- The Repertoire of Siddha Behavior -- Performing Enlightenment -- "To Spread and Increase the Teachings of the Kagyu" -- Tantric Literalism in Context: Competing Models of Buddhist Holiness -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo: The Relationship between the Madmen of U and Tsang -- Chapter 4: Civil War, Strategic Alliances: The Madmen of U and Tsang in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Tibet -- The Pakmodru-Geluk Partnership -- The Rinpungpa Revolt -- Priestly Alliances and Sectarian Aggression under the Rinpungpas -- Sakya, Kagyu and Rinpungpa Affairs -- "A Mutual Understanding": The Patrons of the Madmen of U and Tsang -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Making History: The Later Projects of the Madmen of U and Tsang -- The Projects of the Madman of U and His Disciples -- The Literary School of the Madman of Tsang -- Writing and Printing the Life of Milarepa -- Milarepa the Madman, the Madman as Milarepa -- Putting the Aural Transmission to Paper -- Renovating the Swayambhunath Stupa -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Who Was Drukpa Kunle? -- Popular Depictions of Drukpa Kunle -- Drukpa Kunle's Miscellaneous Writings -- The Trajectory of Drukpa Kunle's Life -- Drukpa Kunle's Position in Politics -- Drukpa Kunle the Critic -- Drukpa Kunle and the Holy Madmen -- The Transformation of Drukpa Kunle -- Chapter 7: The Enduring Trope of Holy Madness -- Other Madmen and Ma.
Book Synopsis Tales of a Mad Yogi by : Elizabeth L. Monson
Download or read book Tales of a Mad Yogi written by Elizabeth L. Monson and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating biography of Drukpa Kunley, a Tibetan Buddhist master and crazy yogi. The fifteenth-century Himalayan saint Drukpa Kunley is a beloved figure throughout Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal, known both for his profound mastery of Buddhist practice as well as his highly unconventional and often humorous behavior. Ever the proverbial trickster and “crazy wisdom” yogi, his outward appearance and conduct of carousing, philandering, and breaking social norms is understood to be a means to rouse ordinary people out of habitual ways of thinking and lead them toward spiritual awakening. Elizabeth L. Monson has spent decades traveling throughout the Himalayas, retracing Drukpa Kunley’s steps and translating his works. In this creative telling, direct translations of his teachings are woven into a life story based on historical accounts, autobiographical sketches, folktales, and first-hand ethnographic research. The result, with flourishes of magical encounters and references to his superhuman capacities, is a poignant narrative of Kunley’s life, revealing to the reader the quintessential example of the capacity of Buddhism to skillfully bring people to liberation.
Book Synopsis The Madman's Middle Way by : Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Download or read book The Madman's Middle Way written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned the two defining moments in modern Tibetan history: the entry into Lhasa by British troops in 1904 and by Chinese troops in 1951. Recognized as an incarnate lama while he was a child, Gendun Chopel excelled in the traditional monastic curriculum and went on to become expert in fields as diverse as philosophy, history, linguistics, geography, and tantric Buddhism. Near the end of his life, before he was persecuted and imprisoned by the government of the young Dalai Lama, he would dictate the Adornment for Nagarjuna’s Thought, a work on Madhyamaka, or “Middle Way,” philosophy. It sparked controversy immediately upon its publication and continues to do so today. The Madman’s Middle Way presents the first English translation of this major Tibetan Buddhist work, accompanied by an essay on Gendun Chopel’s life liberally interspersed with passages from his writings. Donald S. Lopez Jr. also provides a commentary that sheds light on the doctrinal context of the Adornment and summarizes its key arguments. Ultimately, Lopez examines the long-standing debate over whether Gendun Chopel in fact is the author of the Adornment; the heated critical response to the work by Tibetan monks of the Dalai Lama’s sect; and what the Adornment tells us about Tibetan Buddhism’s encounter with modernity. The result is an insightful glimpse into a provocative and enigmatic workthatwill be of great interest to anyone seriously interested in Buddhism or Asian religions.
Book Synopsis Lineages of the Literary by : Nicole Willock
Download or read book Lineages of the Literary written by Nicole Willock and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2024 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies Honorable Mention, 2023 Joseph Levenson Prize Post-1900, Association for Asian Studies In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Renowned as the “Three Polymaths,” Tséten Zhabdrung (1910–1985), Mugé Samten (1914–1993), and Dungkar Lozang Trinlé (1927–1997) earned this symbolic title for their efforts to keep the lamp of the Dharma lit even in the darkest hour of Tibetan history. Lineages of the Literary reveals how the Three Polymaths negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era. Nicole Willock explores their contributions to reviving Tibetan Buddhism, expanding Tibetan literary arts, and pioneering Tibetan studies as an academic discipline. Her sophisticated reading of Tibetan-language sources vivifies the capacious literary world of the Three Polymaths, including autobiography, Buddhist philosophy, poetic theory, and historiography. Whereas prevailing state-centric accounts place Tibetan religious figures in China in one of two roles, collaborator or resistance fighter, Willock shows how the Three Polymaths offer an alternative model of agency. She illuminates how they by turns safeguarded, taught, and celebrated Tibetan Buddhist knowledge, practices, and institutions after their near destruction during the Cultural Revolution. An interdisciplinary work spanning religious studies, history, literary studies, and social theory, Lineages of the Literary offers new insight into the categories of religion and the secular, the role of Tibetan Buddhist leaders in modern China, and the contested ground of Tibet.
Book Synopsis The Classical Tibetan Language by : Stephan V. Beyer
Download or read book The Classical Tibetan Language written by Stephan V. Beyer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Asian languages, Tibetan is second only to Chinese in the depth of its historical record, with texts dating back as far as the eighth and ninth centuries, written in an alphabetic script that preserves the contemporaneous phonological features of the language. The Classical Tibetan Language is the first comprehensive description of the Tibetan language and is distinctive in that it treats the classical Tibetan language on its own terms rather than by means of descriptive categories appropriate to other languages, as has traditionally been the case. Beyer presents the language as a medium of literary expression with great range, power, subtlety, and humor, not as an abstract object. He also deals comprehensively with a wide variety of linguistic phenomena as they are actually encountered in the classical texts, with numerous examples of idioms, common locutions, translation devices, neologisms, and dialectal variations.
Book Synopsis The Life of the Madman of U by : David M. DiValerio
Download or read book The Life of the Madman of U written by David M. DiValerio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of the Madman of Ü tells the story of Künga Zangpo (1458-1532), a famous Tibetan Buddhist ascetic of the Kagyü sect. Having grown weary of the trials of human existence, Künga Zangpo renounced the world during his teenage years, committing himself to learning and practicing the holy Dharma as a monk. Some years later he would give up his monkhood to take on a unique tantric asceticism that entailed dressing in human remains, wandering from place to place, and provoking others to attack him physically, among other norm-overturning behaviors. It was because of this asceticism that Künga Zangpo came to be known as the Madman of Ü. David M. Divalerio translates this biography, originally written in two parts in 1494 and 1537, making accessible to a modern audience a rich depiction of religious life in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Tibet. The book also details Künga Zangpo's many miracles, a testament to the spiritual perfection he attained. His final thirty years were spent at his monastery of Tsimar Pel, where he dispensed teachings to his numerous disciples and followers. The Life of this remarkable and controversial figure, now available in English for the first time, provides new means for understanding the tradition of the "holy madman" (smyon pa) in Tibetan Buddhism.
Book Synopsis Divinity Secularized by : Dalai Lama VI Tshaṅs-dbyaṅs-rgya-mtsho
Download or read book Divinity Secularized written by Dalai Lama VI Tshaṅs-dbyaṅs-rgya-mtsho and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Early Buddhist Block Prints from Mang-Yul Gung-Thang by : Franz-Karl Ehrhard
Download or read book Early Buddhist Block Prints from Mang-Yul Gung-Thang written by Franz-Karl Ehrhard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 3 volumes the great figures of Tibetan Buddhism and its literature a special place is held by Klong-chen Rab-byams-pa (1308-1364) of the rNying-ma-pa school. He is known for having tirelessly pursued all Buddhist learning available during his time and for having systematized the teachings of the "Great Perfection" or "Great Completeness" (rdzogs chen). Nevertheless, it seems that his writings were never collected together by his followers, as those of his contemporaries such as Bu-ston Rin-chen grub (1290-1364) have been.
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Tantra by : Sadhu Santideva
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Tantra written by Sadhu Santideva and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King of the Empty Plain by : ʼGyur-med-bde-chen (Lo-chen)
Download or read book King of the Empty Plain written by ʼGyur-med-bde-chen (Lo-chen) and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of this book is a complete translation of the most famous biography of the great adept Tangtong Gyalpo, King of the Empty Plain (1385-1464), whose impact on the religious, artistic, and technological history of Tibet is unrivaled.
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Book Synopsis The Ideal of the Karmayogin ... by : Aurobindo Ghose
Download or read book The Ideal of the Karmayogin ... written by Aurobindo Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Life of Ramakrishna by : Romain Rolland
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Book Synopsis A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems by : Jam-dbyans-rdo-Rje
Download or read book A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems written by Jam-dbyans-rdo-Rje and published by Padma Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive history of the Nyingtik lineage, which forms the core of the teachings known as Dzogchen.
