A History Of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature In Tibet Volume 2 Assimilation Into Indigenous Scholarship

Author : Pieter Cornelis Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
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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 : Pieter C. Verhagen
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 454 pages
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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 : Walter Spink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047409359

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Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 2 Arguments about Ajanta by Walter Spink Pdf

This volume in Brill’s renowned Ajanta series discusses contentious views on Ajanta’s development, the often-dramatic changes in patronage, and the intriguing problem of why Ajanta’s original (Hinayana) caves were not refurbished by the Vakataka. A comprehensive appendix on Ajanta inscriptions is also included.

Author : Jörg Heimbel
Publisher : Jörg Heimbel
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Kurtis Schaeffer,William McGrath,Jue Lang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 491 pages
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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 : Ronald M. Davidson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231508896

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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 : Michael R. Sheehy,Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Kurtis R. Schaeffer,William A. McGrath,Jue Liang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614297840

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Histories of Tibet by Kurtis R. Schaeffer,William A. McGrath,Jue Liang 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 : Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782974154

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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli Pdf

Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perspectives are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.

Author : Pieter Cornelis Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Sam van Schaik
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611808254

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Buddhist Magic by Sam van Schaik Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the role that magic has played in the history of Buddhism As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients. Studying this history, scholar Sam van Schaik concludes that magic and healing have played a key role in Buddhism's flourishing, yet they have rarely been studied in academic circles or by Western practitioners. The exclusion of magical practices and powers from most discussions of Buddhism in the modern era can be seen as part of the appropriation of Buddhism by Westerners, as well as an effect of modernization movements within Asian Buddhism. However, if we are to understand the way Buddhism has worked in the past, the way it still works now in many societies, and the way it can work in the future, we need to examine these overlooked aspects of Buddhist practice. In Buddhist Magic, van Schaik takes a book of spells and rituals--one of the earliest that has survived--from the Silk Road site of Dunhuang as the key reference point for discussing Buddhist magic in Tibet and beyond. After situating Buddhist magic within a cross-cultural history of world magic, he discusses sources of magic in Buddhist scripture, early Buddhist rituals of protection, medicine and the spread of Buddhism, and magic users. Including material from across the vast array of Buddhist traditions, van Schaik offers readers a fascinating, nuanced view of a topic that has too long been ignored.

Author : Dick van der Meij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136821073

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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 : Henk Blezer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004483088

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Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 2: Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet by Henk Blezer Pdf

The proceedings of the seminars of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS) have developed into the most representative world-wide cross-section of Tibetan Studies. They are an indispensable reference-work for anyone interested in Tibet and capture the cutting edge of Tibet-related research. This volume is the second of three volumes of general proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS. It presents a careful selection of scholarly and academic articles on Tibetan Buddhist and Bon religious culture, including a sizeable section of anthropological contributions. The complete series covers ten volumes. The other seven volumes are the outcome of expert panels. Of special interest to readers of this book are the edited volumes by Katia Buffetrille & Hildegard Diemberger (anthropology: territory and identity), Helmut Eimer & David Germano (Buddhist canon), Toni Huber (anthropology: Amdo cultural revival), Christiaan Klieger (anthropology: presentation of self & identity), and Deborah Klimburg-Salter and Eva Allinger (art history).

Author : Pieter C. Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Yasuhiro Sueki
Publisher : International Institute for Buddhist Studies
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015077608076

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Bibliographical Sources for Buddhist Studies by Yasuhiro Sueki Pdf