Rgyalrong Conservation And Change Social Change On The Margins Of Tibet

Author : David Burnett
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483419527

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Rgyalrong Conservation and Change: Social Change On the Margins of Tibet by David Burnett Pdf

The explosive growth of China's economy since the late 1970s has impacted the whole world including the minority peoples in the west of China - people like the Qiang, Tibetans and Yi. Based on fieldwork in the high valleys of the eastern margins of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, David Burnett has produced a unique study of a people known as the Rgyalrong (officially classed as Tibetans). The Rgyalrong have been impacted by secular education, tourism, and migration to the cities that have resulted from economic reform. Amidst these changes, they endeavour to retain something of their traditional customs, songs, festivals, arts and crafts. They are a people who realize that if they lose their unique culture they will lose their very identity. The issues raised in this book relate not only to the Rgyalrong but to minority peoples everywhere as they experience the forces of globalization.

Author : Diana Junio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004341760

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Patriotic Cooperation by Diana Junio Pdf

In Patriotic Cooperation, Diana Junio offers an account of a series of substantial social programs through collaboration between the Nationalist government and the Church of Christ in China that would be carried out by an organization known as the Border Service Department.

Author : Paul H. De Neui
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878089383

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Seeking the Unseen by Paul H. De Neui Pdf

Buddhism claims no god, yet spiritual realities abound in popular practice. What are these realities? What do they mean to the practitioners? How can understanding these realities inform Christ-followers seeking to communicate the good news of Jesus in ways that all can understand and relate to? In answer to these and other questions, SEANET proudly presents its twelfth volume, Seeking the Unseen: Spiritual Realities in the Buddhist World. Christian practitioners from thirteen different Buddhist cultures share insights gained from their wideranging experiences and perspectives. From Sri Lanka to Japan, from China to the Philippines, these women and men, Asian and Western, present on a topic that is often missing in mission literature today. And for readers seeking personal insight into the growing spiritual complexities of their own place in the postmodern world, lessons from these authors will guide you with practical principles from engaging, firsthand cultural encounters.

Author : International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social change
ISBN : LCCN:2008004377

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Tibetan Modernities by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar Pdf

Author : Stephane Gros
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048544905

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Frontier Tibet by Stephane Gros Pdf

Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People's Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier. The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham's own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies.

Author : E. Gene Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Marie-Theres Albert,Roland Bernecker,Britta Rudolff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110308389

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Understanding Heritage by Marie-Theres Albert,Roland Bernecker,Britta Rudolff Pdf

The publication is the first in a new series on existing and innovative paradigms in Heritage Studies. The series aims at systematising and developing the academic discourse on heritage, which has yielded a wealth and breadth of contributions over the past few years. The publication offers its own emphasis by developing heritage studies with a perspective towards and as a contribution to human development. It thus offers a vision for the construction and establishment of a new discipline. The academic mainsprings and research interests of this repositioning of heritage studies as an academic discipline are discussed by internationally renowned thinkers and heritage practitioners. The publication thus establishes first important points for discussion. Central to this publication are questions concerning the sustainable protection and use of heritage, focussing on the world cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage, but equally questions on the relation of heritage and memory and how these could mutually enrich our understanding of heritage.

Author : Achim Bayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 389733528X

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The Life and Works of MKhan-po GZhan-dga' (1871-1927) by Achim Bayer Pdf

Author : Indika Liyanage,Badeng Nima
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463006156

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Multidisciplinary Research Perspectives in Education by Indika Liyanage,Badeng Nima Pdf

“The editors of this extraordinary book, Indika Liyanage and Badeng Nima, have brought together a wonderfully wide-ranging collection of chapters. The breadth and depth of the studies of education issues in China and Australia are impressive. The topics encompass important questions concerning education policies, curricula, pedagogy, equality, parental engagement, cultural heritage, and anti-drug education. The scope of the book includes Chinese and Australian settings that range from kindergartens to higher education, and from rural to urban environments. The diversity of the book strengthens rather than weakens its coherence, because the golden thread running through all the chapters is a portrayal of the complexity of education provision when global, national and local forces interact. Written by academics with hands-on experience, the chapters provide evidence-based discussions of practical conundrums, enriched by the sophisticated use of interdisciplinary approaches. As a result, this book is powerful, challenging and ground-breaking.” – Bob Adamson, UNESCO Chairholder in TVET and Lifelong Learning, Education University of Hong Kong

Author : Leonard van der Kuijp,James Burnell Robinson,Paul Harrison
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : A.R. Coupe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198522

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A Grammar of Mongsen Ao by A.R. Coupe Pdf

A Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author’s fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India. The languages of this region remain under-documented for a number of historical reasons. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the widespread cultural practice of head-hunting discouraged outsiders from entering the Naga Hills. Shortly after Indian independence in 1947, an armed rebellion by Naga separatists and a government policy of restricting access to the troubled area ensured that Nagaland remained a difficult place to conduct research. In this context, A Grammar of Mongsen Ao offers valuable new insights into the structure of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a linguistically little-known region of the world. The grammatical analysis documents all the functional domains of the language and includes four glossed and translated texts, the latter being of interest to anthropologists studying folklore. Mongsen Ao is a highly agglutinating, mostly suffixing language with predominantly dependent-marking characteristics. Its grammar demonstrates a number of typologically interesting features that are described in detail in the book. Among these is an unusual case marking system in which grammatical marking is motivated by semantic and pragmatic factors, and a rich verbal morphology that produces elaborate sequences of agglutinative suffixes. Grammaticalisation processes are also discussed where relevant, thereby extending the appeal of the book to linguists with interests in grammaticalisation theory. This book will be of value to any linguist seeking to clarify genetic relationships within the Tibeto-Burman family, and it will serve more broadly as a reference grammar for typologists interested in the typological features of a Tibeto-Burman language of north-east India.

Author : Chagdud Tulku
Publisher : Padma Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1881847144

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Gates to Buddhist Practice by Chagdud Tulku Pdf

This collection of teachings presents the traditional wisdom of the Vajrayana path of Tibeta Buddhism. It is a brilliant guide to the spiritual path ~ simple yet profound, intimate and immediate.

Author : Roger Blench,Laurent Sagart,Alicia Sanchez-Mazas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134353118

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The Peopling of East Asia by Roger Blench,Laurent Sagart,Alicia Sanchez-Mazas Pdf

One of the most dynamic research areas in the prehistory of East Asian regions is the synthesis of the findings of archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Several countries have only recently opened to field research and highly active local groups have made possible a raft of collaborative studies that would have been impossible even a decade ago. This book presents an overview of the most recent findings in all these fields. It will be of great interest to scholars of all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the East Asian past.

Author : A.G. Muhaimin
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781920942311

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The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon by A.G. Muhaimin Pdf

This work deals with the socio-religious traditions of the Javanese Muslims living in Cirebon, a region on the north coast in the eastern part of West Java. It examines a wide range of popular traditional religious beliefs and practices. The diverse manifestations of these traditions are considered in an analysis of the belief system, mythology, cosmology and ritual practices in Cirebon. In addition, particular attention is directed to the formal and informal institutionalised transmission of all these traditions

Author : Erik Haarh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Zang Zung language
ISBN : UVA:X030224580

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The Zhang-zhung Language by Erik Haarh Pdf