Religions Of Tibet
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Author | : Tucci |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1136179453 |
Very little is known in the West about Tibetan Buddhism in comparison with other eastern religions. This is partly because the vast literature which it has produced, and which illuminates its history, is still far from accessible. In addition there exists a deep division between monastic Lamaism and religion as it is lived by the people: the former is fragmented into many schools, while the latter shows numerous regional variations. The first comprehensive account of Tibetan Buddhism to be published in English since Waddell's "Buddhism of Tibet" appeared in 1894, this translation is certain to become the standard reference work on the subject.
Author | : Helmut Hoffmann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-10-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0429806183 |
This book, first published in 1961, examines the old Tibetan Bon religion, the development of Buddhism in India and Tibet, and covers the religious struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries. It also describes the rise of the Lamaist sects and the priest state of the Dalai Lamas, and taken as a whole is a study of the development of the character of Tibet itself.
Author | : Giuseppe Tucci |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 1988-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520063481 |
This book provides the historical background and description of Buddhism in Tibet, clarifying the uniqueness of Tibetan Buddhism.
Author | : Donald S. Lopez, Jr. |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691188173 |
Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition--abridged to further facilitate course use--presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries. Organized thematically, the twenty-eight chapters are testimony to the vast scope of religious practice in the Tibetan world, past and present. Religions of Tibet in Practice remains a work of great value to scholars, students, and general readers.
Author | : Charles Bell |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120810501 |
Incl. illust. and maps - Buddhism, China, Tibet, History
Author | : Charles Bell |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 8120810694 |
This volume forms a sequel to the author`s Tibet: Past and Present and The people of Tibet. Like them, it is in part a historical account, in part a description of conditions in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Sir Charles Bell traces the history of the introduction to Buddhism, of the resistance and general decay of the older magic-worship of Ponism, and of the developments which have taken place within Tibetan Buddhism itself. The latter part of the book deals more particularly with the religious organization, with life in the great monasteries and with the religious customs and beliefs of the people. The illustrations are from the author`s own photographs taken in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan.
Author | : Kurtis R. Schaeffer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0231147163 |
Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens responsible for Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself. A meticulous study that draws on more than 150 understudied Tibetan sources, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is the first volume to trace this singular history, allowing for a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau.
Author | : Abdul Wahid Radhu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This first-hand account of Tibetan life within a sacred society prior to the Chinese invasion is the most complete and definitive work to date on the subject of Islam in Tibet. It reveals fascinating interplay between the traditional cultures of Islam and Buddhism; the spiritual lives of these very different traditions recognize one another at a level behind external forms.
Author | : Per Kværne |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The Bon religion claims to be the original and authentic religion of the Tibetan people, and to have been firmly established in the Land of Snows long before Buddhism was introduced in the seventh century AD. Although its adherents were gradually reduced to a minority, Bon has nevertheless continued to flourish in many areas up to the present day in Tibet, especially in the eastern and north-eastern regions where a reconstruction and renaissance is taking place, as well as within the Bon community in exile in India. The iconography of the Bon religion is presented through a series of thangkas, miniatures and bronzes from public and private collections in the West, as well as from communities within Tibet and in exile. With a few exceptions they are hitherto unpublished and date from the late fourteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The peaceful, tutelary, protector and local deities as well as the Bon siddhas, lamas and dakinis are identified and fully described by means of excerpts from ritual or biographical texts which are translated here for the first time.
Author | : Frances Garrett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2008-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134068921 |
This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature. Filling a significant gap, this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan medical history in the English language. It examines embryological narratives in relation to turning points in Tibetan medical history, and its relationship with religious doctrine and practice.