Tibetan Renaissance

Author : Ronald M. Davidson
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120832787

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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 : Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf,Per Kværne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0907791212

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The Renaissance of Tibetan Civilization by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf,Per Kværne Pdf

The young ruler of Tibet donned the traditional garb of a Tibetan tribesman and fled on horesback to India to escape the Chinese occupation of his homeland. The 14th Dalai Lama arrived in Indiain the spring of 1959, the first and most illustrious refugee of the waves soon to pour out from the ancient 'Forbidden Kingdom'. "The Renaissance of Tibetan Civilization" is an inspiring story of the power of courage and hope - the story of refugees who arrived destitute at the frontiers of India and Nepal, yet a mere forty years later have managed to rebuild the essential patterns of Tibetan culture in exile as a legacy for the future. The book documents the struggle for survival and the emerging way of life of individual refugees and families, as well as there construction of religious and artistic traditions. Per Kvaerne appends an essay on the Bon religion which augments the background material necessary for understanding the ingredients of the diaspora. The forced exodus of Tibetan culture is one of the most remarkable stories of our time: how an enclosed and highly conservative community assumed global significance, in the realm of politics as well as in the realm of culture. The tragedy of Tibet has enriched the world by giving it access to the high intellectual and artistic values which gave Tibetans their sense of meaning.

Author : Christopher Hatchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199982929

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Naked Seeing by Christopher Hatchell Pdf

Buddhism is in many ways a visual tradition, with its well-known practices of visualization, its visual arts, its epistemological writings that discuss the act of seeing, and its literature filled with images and metaphors of light. Some Buddhist traditions are also visionary, advocating practices by which meditators seek visions that arise before their eyes. Naked Seeing investigates such practices in the context of two major esoteric traditions, the Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). Both of these experimented with sensory deprivation, and developed yogas involving long periods of dwelling in dark rooms or gazing at the open sky. These produced unusual experiences of seeing, which were used to pursue some of the classic Buddhist questions about appearances, emptiness, and the nature of reality. Along the way, these practices gave rise to provocative ideas and suggested that, rather than being apprehended through internal insight, religious truths might also be seen in the exterior world-realized through the gateway of the eyes. Christopher Hatchell presents the intellectual and literary histories of these practices, and also explores the meditative techniques and physiology that underlie their distinctive visionary experiences. The book also offers for the first time complete English translations of three major Tibetan texts on visionary practice: a Kalacakra treatise by Yumo Mikyo Dorjé, The Lamp Illuminating Emptiness, a Nyingma Great Perfection work called The Tantra of the Blazing Lamps, and a Bön Great Perfection work called Advice on the Six Lamps, along with a detailed commentary on this by Drugom Gyalwa Yungdrung.

Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8185179190

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Rin-chen-bzaṅ-po and the Renaissance of Buddhism in Tibet Around the Millenium by Giuseppe Tucci Pdf

Author : Carl Yamamoto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004212404

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Vision and Violence by Carl Yamamoto Pdf

This book examines the life of Lama Zhang, key figure in the "Tibetan renaissance"—a tantric master and literary innovator who forged a new model of rulership and community that would set the standard for later religious rulers of Lhasa.

Author : Daniel Hirshberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614292319

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Remembering the Lotus-Born by Daniel Hirshberg Pdf

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Harvard University, 2012) under title: Delivering the Lotus-Born: historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance.

Author : Alnis Dickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : OCLC:1291624295

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Organizing Religion by Alnis Dickson Pdf

Author : Amy Heller
Publisher : Acc Us Distribution Book Title
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art, Buddhist
ISBN : UOM:39015049539102

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Tibetan Art by Amy Heller Pdf

A complete introduction to Tibetan art presented in the context of Tibetan Buddhism. Amy Heller places the artwork within its historical social and religious context utilizing in situ photographs from Tibet. It spans 1400 years of art history.

Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8185179190

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Rin-chen-bzan-po and the Renaissance of Buddhism in Tibet Around the Millenium by Giuseppe Tucci Pdf

Author : Anna Akasoy,Charles Burnett,Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351926058

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Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes by Anna Akasoy,Charles Burnett,Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Pdf

The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an increasing interest in the other side. Cultural exchanges and the transmission of knowledge were facilitated by a trading network, with musk constituting one of the main trading goods from the Himalayas, largely through India. From the thirteenth century onwards the spread of the Mongol Empire from the Western borders of Europe through Central Asia to China facilitated further exchanges. The significance of these interactions has been long ignored in scholarship. This volume represents a major contribution to the subject, bringing together new studies by an interdisciplinary group of international scholars. They explore for the first time the multi-layered contacts between the Islamic world, Central Asia and the Himalayas from the eighth century until the present day in a variety of fields, including geography, cartography, art history, medicine, history of science and education, literature, hagiography, archaeology, and anthropology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047411673

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Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 4: Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis by Anonim Pdf

The papers provide access for the first time to Tibetan documents and practices from the period of the tenth to fifteenth century.

Author : Ronald M. Davidson
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Tantric Buddhism
ISBN : 8120819918

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Indian Esoteric Buddhism by Ronald M. Davidson Pdf

Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism the historical origins of Buddhsit thought and practice remain obscure.This work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement and in some ways an example of the feudalization of Indian society. Drawing on primary documents from sanskrit, prakrit, tibetan, Bengali, and chinese author shows how changes in medieval Indian society, including economic and patronage crises, a decline in women`s participation and the formation of large monastic orders led to the rise of the esoteric tradition in India.

Author : Paul Kocot Nietupski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739164457

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Labrang Monastery by Paul Kocot Nietupski Pdf

The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This crucially important and little-studied community is on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu Province, in close proximity to Chinese, Mongol, and Muslim communities. It is Tibetan but located in China; it was founded by Mongols, and associated with Muslims. Its wide-ranging Tibetan religious institutions are well established and serve as the foundations for the community's social and political infrastructures. The Labrang community's borderlands location, the prominence of its religious institutions, and the resilience and identity of its nomadic and semi-nomadic cultures were factors in the growth and survival of the monastery and its enormous estate. This book tells the story of the status and function of the Tibetan Buddhist religion in its fully developed monastic and public dimensions. It is an interdisciplinary project that examines the history of social and political conflict and compromise between the different local ethnic groups. The book presents new perspectives on Qing Dynasty and Republican-era Chinese politics, with far-reaching implications for contemporary China. It brings a new understanding of Sino-Tibetan-Mongol-Muslim histories and societies. This volume will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate student majors in Tibetan and Buddhist studies, in Chinese and Mongol studies, and to scholars of Asian social and political studies.

Author : Kim Gutschow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674038080

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Being a Buddhist Nun by Kim Gutschow Pdf

They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.

Author : Michael L. Walter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004175846

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Buddhism and Empire by Michael L. Walter Pdf

This book convincingly reassesses the role of political institutions in the introduction of Buddhism under the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842), showing how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Taking original sources as a point of departure, the author persuasively argues that later sources hitherto used for the history of early Tibetan Buddhism in fact project later ideas backward, thus distorting our view of its enculturation. Following the pattern of Buddhism s spread elsewhere in Asia, the early Tibetan imperial court realized how useful normative Buddhist concepts were. This work clearly shows that, while some beliefs and practices per se changed after the Tibetan Empire, the model of socio-political-religious leadership developed in that earlier period survived its demise and still constitutes a significant element in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist religious culture.