Among Tibetan Texts

Author : E. Gene Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861711796

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Among Tibetan Texts by E. Gene Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Perdue
Publisher : Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015025385017

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Debate in Tibetan Buddhism by Daniel Perdue Pdf

A clear and thorough exposition of the practice and theory of Buddhist logix and epistemology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:69120252

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz Pdf

Author : Bryan J. Cuevas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 019530652X

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The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Bryan J. Cuevas Pdf

In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Author : Paul Hackett
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559394567

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Learning Classical Tibetan by Paul Hackett Pdf

A modern and accessible reader of Classical Tibetan Buddhist texts based on the traditional monastic educational system, designed for both classroom use and independent study Designed for both classroom use and independent study, Learning Classical Tibetan is a modern and accessible reader for studying traditional Buddhist texts. Unlike other readers of Classical Tibetan, this is a comprehensive manual for navigating Tibetan Buddhist literature drawing on a monastic curriculum. Utilizing the most up-to-date teaching methods and tools for Tibetan language training, students learn to navigate the grammar, vocabulary, syntax, and style of Classical Tibetan while also engaging the content of Buddhist philosophical works. Chapters consist of a contextual introduction to each reading, a Tibetan text marked with references to annotations that provide progressive explanations of grammar, cultural notes on vocabulary, translation hints, notes on the Sanskrit origins of Tibetan expressions and grammatical structures, as well as a literal translation of the text. The reader also includes study plans for classroom use, discussion of dictionaries and other helpful resources, a glossary of English grammatical and linguistic terms, and much more. This reader can be used in conjunction with Paul Hackett’s expanded edition of his well-known Tibetan Verb Lexicon. Using a clear and approachable style, Hackett provides a practical and complete manual that will surely benefit all students of Classical Tibetan.

Author : Leonard van der Kuijp,James Burnell Robinson,Paul Harrison
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559390446

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Tibetan Literature by Leonard van der Kuijp,James Burnell Robinson,Paul Harrison Pdf

Tibetan Literature addresses the immense variety of Tibet's literary heritage. An introductory essay by the editors attempts to assess the overall nature of 'literature' in Tibet and to understand some of the ways in which it may be analyzed into genres. The remainder of the book contains articles by nearly thirty scholars from America, Europe, and Asia—each of whom addresses an important genre of Tibetan literature. These articles are distributed among eight major rubrics: two on history and biography, six on canonical and quasi-canonical texts, four on philosophical literature, four on literature on the paths, four on ritual, four on literary arts, four on non-literary arts and sciences, and two on guidebooks and reference works.

Author : Todd T. Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791492437

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Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal by Todd T. Lewis Pdf

This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu. It begins with an account of the Newar Buddhist community's history and its place within the religious environment of Nepal and proceeds to build around five popular translations, several of which were known across Asia: the Srngabheri Avadana, the Simhalasarthabahu Avadana, the Tara, the Mahakala Vratas, and the Pancaraksa. Lewis documents how the respective texts have been domesticated in Nepal's art and architecture, healing traditions, and rituals. He shows how they provide paradigmatic case studies that transcend the Nepalese context, illustrating universal practices or issues in all Buddhist communities, such as gender relations and stupa veneration, the role of merchants, ethnicity, violence, devotions to celestial bodhisattvas by kings and women, and the role of mantra recitations and healing rituals in the lives of Buddhists.

Author : Johan Van Manen
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 052638669X

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Minor Tibetan Texts by Johan Van Manen Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ekai Kawaguchi
Publisher : anboco
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736417090

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Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi Pdf

I was lately reading the Holy Text of the Saḍḍharma-Puṇdarīka (the Aphorisms of the White Lotus of the Wonderful or True Law) in a Samskṛṭ manuscript under a Boḍhi-tree near Mṛga-Ḍāva (Sāranāṭh), Benares. Here our Blessed Lord Buḍḍha Shākya-Muni taught His Holy Ḍharma just after the accomplishment of His Buḍḍhahood at Buḍḍhagayā. Whilst doing so, I was reminded of the time, eighteen years ago, when I had read the same text in Chinese at a great Monastery named Ohbakusang at Kyoto in Japan, a reading which determined me to undertake a visit to Tibet. It was in March, 1891, that I gave up the Rectorship of the Monastery of Gohyakurakan in Tokyo, and left for Kyoto, where I remained living as a hermit for about three years, totally absorbed in the study of a large collection of Buḍḍhist books in the Chinese language. My object in doing so was to fulfil a long-felt desire to translate the texts into Japanese in an easy style from the difficult and unintelligible Chinese. But I afterwards found that it was not a wise thing to rely upon the Chinese texts alone, without comparing them with Tibetan translations as well as with the original Samskṛṭ texts which are contained in Mahāyāna Buḍḍhism. The Buḍḍhist Samskṛṭ texts were to be found in Tibet and Nepāl. Of course, many of them had been discovered by European Orientalists in Nepāl and a few in other parts of India and Japan. But those texts had not yet been found which included the most important manuscripts of which Buḍḍhist scholars were in great want. Then again, the Tibetan texts were famous for being[vi] more accurate translations than the Chinese. Now I do not say that the Tibetan translations are superior to the Chinese. As literal translations, I think that they are superior; but, for their general meaning, the Chinese are far better than the Tibetan.

Author : Lhundub Sopa,Leonard Zwilling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717446

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Peacock in the Poison Grove by Lhundub Sopa,Leonard Zwilling Pdf

Geshe Sopa offers insightful commentary on two of the earliest Tibetan texts that focus on mental training. Peacock in the Poison Grovepresents powerful yogic methods of dispelling the selfish delusions of the ego and maintaining purity in our motives. Geshe Sopa's lucid explanations teach how we can fight the egocentric enemy within by realizing the truth of emptiness and by developing a compassionate, loving attitude toward others.

Author : David Paul Jackson,Bihar Research Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Buddhist literature, Tibetan
ISBN : UCAL:B4223728

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The "miscellaneous Series" of Tibetan Texts in the Bihar Research Society, Patna by David Paul Jackson,Bihar Research Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004404441

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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of essays dedicated to the description and interpretation of Tibetan medical knowledge across different historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts.

Author : Johan Van Manen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Buddhist literature, Tibetan
ISBN : OCLC:1235364387

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Minor Tibetan Texts by Johan Van Manen Pdf

Author : Johan Van Manen
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356622097

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Minor Tibetan Texts by Johan Van Manen Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.