Among Tibetan Texts

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861711793
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis Among Tibetan Texts by : E. Gene Smith

Download or read book Among Tibetan Texts written by E. Gene Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three decades, E. Gene Smith ran the Library of Congress's Tibetan Text Publication Project of the United States Public Law 480 (PL480) - an effort to salvage and reprint the Tibetan literature that had been collected by the exile community or by members of the Bhotia communities of Sikkim, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. Smith wrote prefaces to these reprinted books to help clarify and contextualize the particular Tibetan texts: the prefaces served as rough orientations to a poorly understood body of foreign literature. Originally produced in print quantities of twenty, these prefaces quickly became legendary, and soon photocopied collections were handed from scholar to scholar, achieving an almost cult status. These essays are collected here for the first time. The impact of Smith's research on the academic study of Tibetan literature has been tremendous, both for his remarkable ability to synthesize diverse materials into coherent accounts of Tibetan literature, history, and religious thought, and for the exemplary critical scholarship he brought to this field.

The Classical Tibetan Language

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791410998
Total Pages : 534 pages
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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 SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 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.

The Blue Annals

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Total Pages : 1275 pages
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Book Synopsis The Blue Annals by : ʼGos Lo-tsā-ba Gzhon-nu-dpal

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The Buddhism of Tibet and The Key to the Middle Way

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Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Book Synopsis The Buddhism of Tibet and The Key to the Middle Way by : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho

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Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā

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Total Pages : 320 pages
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The Buddhism of Tibet

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
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Book Synopsis The Buddhism of Tibet by : Laurence Austine Waddell

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The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature

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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Variational Semantics in Tibeto-Burman

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Total Pages : 362 pages
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Book Synopsis Variational Semantics in Tibeto-Burman by : James A. Matisoff

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Manuscripts and Travellers

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110225654
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book Manuscripts and Travellers written by Sam van Schaik and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.

The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135796548
Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra written by Stephen Hodge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete translation into English of this Tibetan text, together with the informative commentary by the 8th century master Buddhaguhya. This text is of seminal importance for the history of Buddhist Tantra, especially as very little has been published concerning the origins of Tantra in India.

William Woodville Rockhill

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Book Synopsis William Woodville Rockhill by : Kenneth Wimmel

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Indian Esoteric Buddhism

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120819917
Total Pages : 502 pages
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Book Synopsis Indian Esoteric Buddhism by : Ronald M. Davidson

Download or read book Indian Esoteric Buddhism written by Ronald M. Davidson and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism the historical origins of Buddhsit thought and practice remain obscure.This work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement and in some ways an example of the feudalization of Indian society. Drawing on primary documents from sanskrit, prakrit, tibetan, Bengali, and chinese author shows how changes in medieval Indian society, including economic and patronage crises, a decline in women`s participation and the formation of large monastic orders led to the rise of the esoteric tradition in India.

Monks and Magicians

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120811867
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Monks and Magicians written by Phyllis Granoff and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Experiential Dimension of Advaita Vedanta provides a clear, concise and

Worlds of Transformation

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Total Pages : 520 pages
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Book Synopsis Worlds of Transformation by : Marilyn M. Rhie

Download or read book Worlds of Transformation written by Marilyn M. Rhie and published by . This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the highly respected authors of Abrams' acclaimed Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet comes a new volume devoted to 200 sublime Tibetan thangka paintings from the premier New York collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin. The works span the 12th through 20th centuries and the spectrum of Tibetan artistic schools; each one is reproduced in color and most are published here for the first time.This magnificent volume presents an analysis of each painting in terms of iconography and religious meaning, style, regional lineage, and sources. In addition, David Jackson discusses the paintings of the Kagyupa order in the Rubin Collection.This volume continues the authors' groundbreaking efforts to understand the complexity of Tibetan art, and seeks to make these splendid and profound works accessible to a wider public.

The Dalai Lamas

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Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dalai Lamas by : Martin Brauen

Download or read book The Dalai Lamas written by Martin Brauen and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To coincide with the celebrations surrounding the 70th birthday of the Dalai Lama and the exhibition to be held at the Ethnographic Museum of Zurich University (Volkerkundemuseum der Universitat Zurich) in July, Serindia will be publishing a history of all the dalai lamas, each portrayed in text and illustrations. Essays contributed by sixteen authors illuminate the institutions of reincarnation and enthronement of the dalai lamas, interregna, panchen lamas, and relations between the dalai lamas and the Chinese. The lives and work of the dalai lamas are illustrated with numerous and largely unpublished sources, including thangkhas, statues of individual dalai lamas, paintings of the Potala, gifts of various dalai lamas to high dignitaries, such as Chinese emperors and Russian tsars, and photographs of the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas from Tibetan, British, and Indian archives."

The Enlightenment of Vairocana

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book The Enlightenment of Vairocana written by Alex Wayman and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment of Vairocana is a covering for two books that study a famous Buddhist scripture with given Sanskrit titles of Vairocanabhisambodhitantra or Mahavairocanasutra. The first book, by Alex Wayman, translates the second chapter, which contains the body mandala of Vairocana's Compassion, copiously using Buddhaguhya's commentary, study of some other chapters such as the final one on fire lineage, and includes much introductory material, stressing the Indo-Tibetan approach, on such topics as the Dharmadhatu and the deities of the second chapter. The second book, by Ryujun Tajima, translates the first chapter, with the scripture's theory of becoming a Buddha in one life, copiously using Subhakarasimha's commentary, summary of the remaining chapters, and includes introductory material stressing the Sino-Japanese approach, especially introducing the reader to the positions of the Shingon sect. The two books complement each other, and provide the interested reader with a veritable feast of information. Hopefully the reader will appreciate the beauty of religious message, and the efforts of the two authors to render the words of the scripture sensitively and carefully. It should be admitted that this is a profound Buddhist scripture with numerous well-crafted verses, and that it is resistent to the understanding, requiring lengthy attention for its penetration.

A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga

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Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120615076
Total Pages : 538 pages
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Book Synopsis A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga by : August Hermann Francke

Download or read book A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga written by August Hermann Francke and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetan Text, English Abstracts And Notes Bibliotheca Indica 1905-41