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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047411676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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

Author: International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar
Publisher: Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047429443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Balancing the academic emphasis on Buddhist monastic studies, this volume focuses on noncelibate religious specialists including Tantric professionals, village lamas, spirit mediums, and Treasure revealers in Central and Eastern Tibet, Bhutan, and India from historical times to the present day.

Author: International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004155163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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This volume provides essential readings in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Tibetan literary studies. Chapters range from discussions of individual contemporary texts to theoretical interventions in literary and Tibetan studies.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047428234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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This book, the first scholarly publication in the West to provide detailed documentation of modern life in contemporary Tibet, presents the cutting-edge field work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying caste, pop music, media, painting, education, economics, childbirth and environment in Tibetan communities today.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047411587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Book Description
This volume provides essential readings in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Tibetan literary studies. Chapters range from discussions of individual contemporary texts to theoretical interventions in literary and Tibetan studies.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904742171X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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This volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

Author: Michelle C. Wang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004360409
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang, focusing on the intersections between political authority, religious praxis, and visual language.

Author: Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231509782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 853

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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: Matthew Kapstein
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047421191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Early medieval Tibet remains one of the most challenging fields in Tibetan Studies overall, wherein numerous mysteries remain. The six contributions comprising the present collection shed light on major topics in history, literature and religion.