A History Of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature In Tibet Volume 1 Transmission Of The Canonical Literature

Author : Pieter Cornelis Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004492257

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A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, Volume 1 Transmission of the Canonical Literature by Pieter Cornelis Verhagen Pdf

The first comprehensive survey of the important corpus of Indic literature on Sanskrit grammar, extant in Tibetan translation in the Buddhist canon. Core of the study is the description of the forty-seven Sanskrit grammatical treatises covering some two thousand folios in the canon. The contents of these texts and the historical information regarding their Tibetan translators are examined in detail. Further chapters are devoted to the grammatical analysis in an eighth-century Tibetan handbook for translators, and to data from Tibetan historiography. The book offers the first systematic study of the extent and the historical development of the Tibetan expertise in Sanskrit grammar, a central scholastic discipline in Buddhism. It opens up a section of Tibetan literature essential to the understanding of the Indo-Tibetan indigenous grammatical traditions.

Author : Pieter C. Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004098399

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A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet by Pieter C. Verhagen Pdf

The first comprehensive survey of the important corpus of Indic literature on Sanskrit grammar extant in Tibetan translation in the Buddhist canon. A systematic study of the history of the Tibetans' expertise in this central scholastic discipline in Buddhism.

Author : Pieter Cornelis Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004492264

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A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, Volume 2 Assimilation into Indigenous Scholarship by Pieter Cornelis Verhagen Pdf

This first, systematic survey of the Tibetan non-canonical literature dealing with Sanskrit grammar, partly consists of translations of Indic works, such as revisions of canonical versions, and translations of works not contained in the canon, and partly of original Tibetan works. In the first chapter of the book a detailed description of these textual materials is presented – sixty-one titles in total – which were produced during all periods of Tibetan literary history, from the ninth to the twentieth centuries. The second chapter discusses one specific effect of the impetus of Indic traditional grammar within Tibetan scholastics, namely the influence of Indic models of linguistic description on Tibetan indigenous grammar. This particular assimilation of an Indic technical discipline into Tibetan scholarship is examined in detail, and it is shown that other segments of Indic Buddhism were sources of inspiration and derivation for the Tibetan grammarians as well.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004301153

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Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types by Anonim Pdf

The papers in Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types investigate specific Tibetan genres and texts as well as genre classification, transformation, and reception. The text types examined range from oral trickster narratives to songs, offering-rituals, biographies, and modern literature.

Author : Pieter C. Verhagen
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004118829

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A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet: Assimilation into indigenous scholarship by Pieter C. Verhagen Pdf

This systematic survey presents Tibetan non-canonical literature dealing with Sanskrit grammar, including translations of Indic works and original Tibetan works. In the second chapter of the book, the influence of Indic models of linguistic description on Tibetan indigenous grammar is discussed.

Author : Kurtis Schaeffer,William McGrath,Jue Lang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614298083

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Histories of Tibet by Kurtis Schaeffer,William McGrath,Jue Lang Pdf

The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of Leonard van der Kuijp, whose groundbreaking research in Tibetan intellectual and cultural history imbued his students with an abiding sense of curiosity and discovery. As part of Leonard van der Kuijp’s research in Tibetan history, as he patiently and expertly revealed treasures of the Tibetan intellectual tradition in fourteenth-century Tsang, or seventeenth-century Lhasa, or eighteenth-century Amdo, he developed an international community of colleagues and students. The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of the honoree and express the comprehensive research that his international cohort have engaged in alongside his generous tutelage over the course of forty years. He imbued his students with the abiding sense of curiosity and discovery that can be experienced through every one of his writings, and that can be found as well in these new essays in intellectual, cultural, and institutional history by Christopher Beckwith, the late Hubert Decleer, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Jörg Heimbel and David Jackson, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Nathan Hill, Matthew Kapstein, Kurtis Schaeffer, Michael Witzel, Allison Aitken, Yael Bentor, Pieter Verhagen, Todd Lewis, William McGrath, Peter Schwieger, Gray Tuttle, and others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004644779

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Ideology and Status of Sanskrit by Anonim Pdf

The present volume is the outcome of a seminar on the Ideology and Status of Sanskrit held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies. The book contains studies of crucial periods and important areas in the history of the Sanskrit language, from the earliest, Vedic and pre-Vedic periods, through the period in which the (restricted) use of Sanskrit spread over practically all of South (including part of Central) and Southeast Asia (sometimes referred to as the period of "Greater India"), up to the recent history of Sanskrit in India. The contributions of this volume are divided into three sections: (1) Origins and Creation of the "Eternal Language"; (2) Transculturation, Vernacularization, Sanskritization; (3) The Sanskrit Tradition: Continuity from the past or Construction from the present?

Author : Ronald M. Davidson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0231134711

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Tibetan Renaissance by Ronald M. Davidson Pdf

How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars? Ronald M. Davidson explores how the translation and spread of esoteric Buddhist texts dramatically shaped Tibetan society and led to its rise as the center of Buddhist culture throughout Asia, replacing India as the perceived source of religious ideology and tradition. During the Tibetan Renaissance (950-1200 C.E.), monks and yogins translated an enormous number of Indian Buddhist texts. They employed the evolving literature and practices of esoteric Buddhism as the basis to reconstruct Tibetan religious, cultural, and political institutions. Many translators achieved the de facto status of feudal lords and while not always loyal to their Buddhist vows, these figures helped solidify political power in the hands of religious authorities and began a process that led to the Dalai Lama's theocracy. Davidson's vivid portraits of the monks, priests, popular preachers, yogins, and aristocratic clans who changed Tibetan society and culture further enhance his perspectives on the tensions and transformations that characterized medieval Tibet.

Author : Dick van der Meij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136821141

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India and Beyond by Dick van der Meij Pdf

First published in 1997. The International Institute for Asian Studies (lIAS) is pleased to introduce a new series 'Studies from the International Institute for Asian Studies'. This present volume, India and Beyond; Aspects of Literature Meaning, Ritual and Thought, contains more than 30 contributions from well-established scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. These essays are in honour of one of the founding fathers of the lIAS, Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South Asian Languages, University of California at Berkeley. This volume is edited by Dick van der Meij, editor of the Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies Programme at Leiden University.

Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231147163

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The Culture of the Book in Tibet by Kurtis R. Schaeffer Pdf

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 : Sheldon Pollock,Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies Sheldon Pollock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520228214

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Literary Cultures in History by Sheldon Pollock,Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies Sheldon Pollock Pdf

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Author : Vincenzo Vergiani,Daniele Cuneo,Camillo Alessio Formigatti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110543124

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Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages by Vincenzo Vergiani,Daniele Cuneo,Camillo Alessio Formigatti Pdf

This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Author : Michael R. Sheehy,Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438477572

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The Other Emptiness by Michael R. Sheehy,Klaus-Dieter Mathes Pdf

Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet. This book brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or “other-emptiness.” Defined as the emptiness of everything other than the continuous luminous awareness that is one’s own enlightened nature, this distinctive philosophical and contemplative presentation of emptiness is quite different from rangtong—emptiness that lacks independent existence, which has had a strong influence on the dissemination of Buddhist philosophy in the West. Important topics are addressed, including the history, literature, and philosophy of emptiness that have contributed to zhentong thinking in Tibet from the thirteenth century until today. The contributors examine a wide range of views on zhentong from each of the major orders of Tibetan Buddhism, highlighting the key Tibetan thinkers in the zhentong philosophical tradition. Also discussed are the early formulations of buddhanature, interpretations of cosmic time, polemical debates about emptiness in Tibet, the zhentong view of contemplation, and creative innovations of thought in Tibetan Buddhism. Highly accessible and informative, this book can be used as a scholarly resource as well as a textbook for teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on Buddhist philosophy. “The book contains extremely interesting material and makes a valuable contribution to the study of Tibetan Buddhism. It will be appreciated by those interested in the development of one of the important and yet understudied of its traditions, the other emptiness tradition.” — Georges B. J. Dreyfus, coeditor of The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika Distinction: What Difference Does a Difference Make?

Author : Jörg Heimbel
Publisher : Jörg Heimbel
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9789937028493

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Vajradhara in Human Form: The Life and Times of Ngor chen Kun dga' bzang po by Jörg Heimbel Pdf

Author : R. Rolf Alfred Stein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004183384

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Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua by R. Rolf Alfred Stein Pdf

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.