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Author : Berthold Laufer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:610426343
Author : Berthold Laufer,Hartmut Walravens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010124878
Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer,Matthew T. Kapstein,Gray Tuttle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231509787
The most comprehensive collection of Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social development of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. Including more than 180 representative writings, Sources of Tibetan Tradition spans Tibet's vast geography and long history, presenting for the first time a diversity of works by religious and political leaders; scholastic philosophers and contemplative hermits; monks and nuns; poets and artists; and aristocrats and commoners. The selected readings reflect the profound role of Buddhist sources in shaping Tibetan culture while illustrating other major areas of knowledge. Thematically varied, they address history and historiography; political and social theory; law; medicine; divination; rhetoric; aesthetic theory; narrative; travel and geography; folksong; and philosophical and religious learning, all in relation to the unique trajectories of Tibetan civil and scholarly discourse. The editors begin each chapter with a survey of broader social and cultural contexts and introduce each translated text with a concise explanation. Concluding with writings that extend into the early twentieth century, this volume offers an expansive encounter with Tibet's exceptional intellectual heritage.
Author : Serinity Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : 9780195307887
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women - some carried by wings, others by rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses - reveal both fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly,Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, expressed in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She introduces a wide range of such figures, including supernatural women like the Valkyries ofNorse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi, airborne Christian mystics, and wayward women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines theextraordinary mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch.Throughout, the book Young traces the inextricable link between female power and sexuality and the male desire to control it. This is most vividly portrayed in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brunnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked intogiving up her virginity. Centuries earlier the theme is seen in Euripides' play Medea, in which the title character - enraged by her husband's intention to marry a younger woman - uses her divine powers in revenge, wreaking chaos and destruction around her. It is a theme that remains tangible evenin the twentieth-century exploits of the comic book character Wonder Woman who, Young argues, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited.The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly is an exciting, fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions around the world.
Author : Philip Denwood
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027238030
The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance to the study of Buddhism. After surveying all the known varieties of Tibetan, including their geographical and historical background, this book concentrates on a phonological and grammatical description of the modern spoken Lhasa dialect, the standard spoken variety. The grammatical framework which has been specially devised to describe this variety is then applied to the written varieties of Preclassical and Classical Tibetan, demonstrating the fundamental unity of the language. The writing system is outlined, though all examples and texts are given in roman script and where appropriate, the International Phonetic Alphabet. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Author : Sara Kuehn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004209725
This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015073380035
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015036111253
Author : Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical literature
ISBN : UVA:X004995838
Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07
Category : South Asia
ISBN : UCAL:B5101778
Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan
Author : Claude Rapin
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : IND:30000057478889
The collection of Indian products in the treasury seems to prove that their presence at Ai Khanum has nothing to do with any commercial relations--the silk road having opened only later--but is to be connected with the military expedition of Eucratides.
Author : Yasuhiro Sueki
Publisher : International Institute for Buddhist Studies
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015077608076
Author : Centre d'études himalayennes (Meudon, France)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Himalaya Mountains Region
ISBN : WISC:89048418792
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : UOM:39015041904486
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012391012