Understanding The Case Against Shukden

Author : Gavin Kilty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614295549

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Understanding the Case Against Shukden by Gavin Kilty Pdf

Leaders of the Dalai Lama’s tradition illuminate the issues surrounding the Shukden controversy. Until recently, the figure of Shukden, or Dölgyal, was an obscure one in the pantheon of Tibetan Buddhism’s many oracles and protectors. But after a small faction within the Geluk tradition began to promote and disseminate the practice, sowing division among Buddhists of different sects, the Dalai Lama decided to investigate the practice more deeply. The fruits of this research are presented here, as are the statements made by His Holiness about it over the past fifty years. Discover the historical context behind this contentious practice, which dates back to the Fifth Dalai Lama in the seventeenth century, and learn why the present Dalai Lama has been so vocal in countering it. Understanding the Case against Shukden is a clarion call for unity among the Tibetan people and a vision for a more harmonious Tibetan Buddhist community.

Author : José Cabezón,Penpa Dorjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614296126

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Sera Monastery by José Cabezón,Penpa Dorjee Pdf

The definitive history of Sera Monastery, one of the great monastic universities of Tibet, from its founding to the present. Founded in 1419, Sera Monastery was one of the three densas, the great seats of learning of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. With over 9,000 monks in residence in 1959, it was the second largest monastery in the world. Throughout its history, Sera has produced some of Tibet’s most important saints, scholars, and political leaders. The scholars José Cabezón and Penpa Dorjee begin Sera Monastery with the history of monasticism from the time of the Buddha through its early development in Tibet and then tell the 600-year story of Sera from its founding to the present. They recount how the monastery grew and evolved during the centuries, how it has fared under Chinese rule, and how it was transplanted in the Tibetan refugee camps of South India. We are introduced to some of Sera’s most important lamas and hermits, as well as its curriculum, yearly calendar, the daily life of scholar monks, and the role Sera monks played in the political history of Tibet. Former Sera monks themselves, Cabezón and Dorjee demonstrate their firsthand knowledge of the monastery, its traditions, and daily life on every page. Scrupulously researched over decades, Sera Monastery is the most comprehensive history of a Tibetan monastery ever written in a Western language.

Author : Dalai Dalai Lama,Dalai Lama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614297932

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The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path, Volume One by Dalai Dalai Lama,Dalai Lama Pdf

"The first volume of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path is a fairly detailed explanation of general points related to Buddhist concepts. It includes an introduction for today's Buddhists on the important and fundamental points of the philosophical tenets of Śākyamuni Buddha, explanations on the reality of base existence presented by Buddhism and modern science, and ways to integrate the essence of Buddhism into daily life"--

Author : Klaus-Dieter Mathes,Gabriele Coura
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004466364

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Nonsectarianism (ris med) in 19th- and 20th-Century Eastern Tibet by Klaus-Dieter Mathes,Gabriele Coura Pdf

Groundbreaking research by nine international Tibetan studies scholars on one of the most important developments in the history of Tibetan Buddhism, ris med, a period of religious tolerance.

Author : Roger R. Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614296010

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Mind Seeing Mind by Roger R. Jackson Pdf

A definitive study of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, with translations of a number of its key texts. Mahamudra, the “great seal,” refers to the ultimate nature of mind and reality, to a meditative practice for realizing that ultimate reality, and to the final fruition of buddhahood. It is especially prominent in the Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, so it sometimes comes as a surprise that mahamudra has played an important role in the Geluk school, where it is part of a special transmission received in a vision by the tradition’s founder, Tsongkhapa. Mahamudra is a significant component of Geluk ritual and meditative life, widely studied and taught by contemporary masters such as the Dalai Lama. Roger Jackson’s Mind Seeing Mind offers us both a definitive scholarly study of the history, texts, and doctrines of Geluk mahamudra and masterful translations of its seminal texts. It provides a skillful survey of the Indian sources of the teaching, illuminates the place of mahamudra among Tibetan Buddhist schools, and details the history and major textual sources of Geluk mahamudra. Jackson also addresses critical questions, such as the relation between Geluk and Kagyü mahamudra, and places mahamudra in the context of contemporary religious studies. The translation portion of Mind Seeing Mind includes ten texts on mahamudra history, ritual, and practice. Among these are the First Panchen Lama’s root verses and autocommentary on mahamudra meditation, his ritual masterpiece Offering to the Guru, and a selection of his songs of spiritual experience. Mind Seeing Mind adds considerably to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality and shows how mahamudra came to be woven throughout the fabric of the Geluk tradition.

Author : Sangye Desi Gyatso
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781614291169

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The Mirror of Beryl by Sangye Desi Gyatso Pdf

Composed while its author was the ruler of Tibet, Mirror of Beryl is a detailed account of the origins and history of medicine in Tibet through the end of the seventeenth century. Its author, Desi Sangye Gyatso (1653 - 1705), was the heart disciple and political successor of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama and the author of several highly regarded works on Tibetan medicine, including his Blue Beryl, a commentary on the foundational text of Tibetan medicine, The Four Tantras. In the present historical introduction, Sangye Gyatso traces the sources of influence on Tibetan medicine to classical India, China, Central Asia, and beyond, providing life stories, extensive references to earlier Tibetan works on medicine, and fascinating details about the Tibetan approach to healing. He also provides a commentary on the pratimoksha, bodhisattva, and tantric Buddhist vows. Desi Sangye Gyatso's Mirror of Beryl remains today an essential resource for students of medical science in Tibet.

Author : Alexander Norman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9780544416581

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The Dalai Lama by Alexander Norman Pdf

The first authoritative biography of the Dalai Lama--a story by turns inspiring and shocking--from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. At last Alexander Norman--acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet--delivers the definitive, unique, unforgettable biography. The Dalai Lama recounts an astonishing odyssey from isolated Tibetan village to worldwide standing as spiritual and political leader of one of the world's most profound and complex cultural traditions. Norman reveals that, while the Dalai Lama has never been comfortable with his political position, he has been a canny player--at one time CIA-backed--who has maneuvered amidst pervasive violence, including placing himself at the center of a dangerous Buddhist schism. Yet even more surprising than the political, Norman convinces, is the Dalai Lama's astonishing spiritual practice, rooted in magic, vision, and prophecy--details of which are illuminated in this book for the first time. A revelatory life story of one of today's most radical, charismatic, and beloved world leaders.

Author : Melvyn C. Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520911765

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A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951 by Melvyn C. Goldstein Pdf

The "Tibetan Question," the nature of Tibet's political status vis-à-vis China, has been the subject of often bitterly competing views while the facts of the issue have not been fully accessible to interested observers. While one faction has argued that Tibet was, in the main, historically independent until it was conquered by the Chinese Communists in 1951 and incorporated into the new Chinese state, the other faction views Tibet as a traditional part of China that split away at the instigation of the British after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty and was later dutifully reunited with "New China" in 1951. In contrast, this comprehensive study of modern Tibetan history presents a detailed, non-partisan account of the demise of the Lamaist state. Drawing on a wealth of British, American, and Indian diplomatic records; first-hand-historical accounts written by Tibetan participants; and extensive interviews with former Tibetan officials, monastic leaders, soldiers, and traders, Goldstein meticulously examines what happened and why. He balances the traditional focus on international relations with an innovative emphasis on the intricate web of internal affairs and events that produced the fall of Tibet. Scholars and students of Asian history will find this work an invaluable resource and interested readers will appreciate the clear explanation of highly polemicized, and often confusing, historical events.

Author : Khedrup Norsang Gyatso
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717422

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Ornament of Stainless Light by Khedrup Norsang Gyatso Pdf

The premiere volume of Thupten Jinpa's thirty-two-volume Library of Tibetan Classics series, inaugurated to coincide with the Dalai Lama's conferral of the initiation rite of Kalacakra in Toronto in April 2004. The Kalacakra, or "wheel of time," tantra likely entered Indian Mahayana Buddhism around the tenth century. In expounding the root tantra, the Indian master Pundarika, one of the legendary Kalki kings of the land of Shambhala, wrote his influential Stainless Light.Ornament of Stainless Light is an authoritative Tibetan exposition of this important text, composed in the fifteenth century by Khedrup Norsang Gyatso, tutor to the Second Dalai Lama. One of the central projects of Kalacakra literature is a detailed correlation between the human body and the external universe. In working out this complex correspondence, the Kalacakra texts present an amazingly detailed theory of cosmology and astronomy, especially about the movements of the various celestial bodies. The Kalacakra tantra is also a highly complex system of Buddhist theory and practice that employs vital bodily energies, deep meditative mental states, and a penetrative focus on subtle points within the body's key energy conduits known as channels. Ornament of Stainless Light addresses all these topics, elaborating on the external universe, the inner world of the individual, the Kalacakra initiation rites, and the tantric stages of generation and completion, all in a highly readable English translation.

Author : Jacob P. Dalton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300153927

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The Taming of the Demons by Jacob P. Dalton Pdf

The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "library cave" near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself. -- Georges Dreyfus

Author : Asbjørn Dyrendal,David G. Robertson,Egil Asprem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004382022

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Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion by Asbjørn Dyrendal,David G. Robertson,Egil Asprem Pdf

The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first collection to offer a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories and their relationship with religion(s), taking a global and interdisciplinary perspective.

Author : Trijang Rinpoche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781614295273

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The Magical Play of Illusion by Trijang Rinpoche Pdf

The Dalai Lama’s teacher's autobiography offers glimpses into the young Dalai Lama's spiritual upbringing and his escape from Tibet. Trijang Rinpoche was born to an aristocratic Tibetan family in 1901 and quickly recognized as the reincarnation of a very important high lama. Eventually appointed a mentor to the young Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Trijang became one of his most trusted confidants. His status gave him a front-row seat to many of the momentous historical events that befell Tibet. Rinpoche observes the workings of Tibetan high society and politics with an unvarnished frankness, including inside details of encounters between the Dalai Lama and Mao Tse Tung, Jawarlal Nehru, Pope John Paul II, and Indira Gandhi. Most widely known as a yogi with deep and profound, lifelong religious training, Trijang was also a statesman, a preserver of culture, a poet, writer, and artist. His autobiography is a beautifully written tour-de-force account of Tibetan life in the twentieth century, including intimate details about the upbringing of the Dalai Lama.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:30000010372633

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1990 Census of Population and Housing by Anonim Pdf

Author : René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8173030499

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Oracles and Demons of Tibet by René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz Pdf

Author : International Association of Buddhist Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X006093322

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The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies by International Association of Buddhist Studies Pdf