Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources

Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
Author: F. Anton von Schiefner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136379657

This is Volume XVI of sixteen of the Oriental series looking at Buddhism. Initially published in 1906, this book presents a collection of Tibetan stories connected to Buddhism, taken from Indian sources and translated from the Kah-gyur and are Tibetan versions of Sanskrit writings.

Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources

Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There are 69 stories in this collection. They are traditional tales from Tibet that have been translated into English. The stories give an insight into the culture, traditions and folklore of Tibet of long ago.

The Bible of Tibet

The Bible of Tibet
Author: Ralston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136202978

First Published in 2005. This is the first collection translated and edited of the most significant scripture from the Buddhist literature of South Asia. It was on the basis of this collection that the English-speaking reader became acquainted with the 'Bible of Tibet'. This collection still represents the most complete collection of Buddhist teachings and is indis­pensable to the study of that subject.

The theatre of Tibet

The theatre of Tibet
Author: Antonio Attisani
Publisher: Mimesis
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2024-04-05T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8869764249

he theatrical culture of Tibet is probably the last to remain virtually unknown to the outside world, and to the West in particular. As well as describing the current situation of studies on Tibetan theatre, the current volume also provides an essay on imagination and how it is concretely manifested by the Tibetan people and their actors. Recent decades have seen radical change for Tibetan theatre, ache lhamo, now performed by a diaspora for whom a declining artistic and technical change derives from an uncertain politics concerning secular and popular culture, as well as the ongoing cultural genocide caused by China’s subjection of Tibet.

Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India

Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India
Author: Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1998
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9788120815285

The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.

The Folktale

The Folktale
Author: Stith Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1977
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520035379

As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.