Book Description
This Is The First Aurhentic Step Towards An Advanced Stufy Of Himalayan Buddhism.
Author : Jagadish Chandra Regmi
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This Is The First Aurhentic Step Towards An Advanced Stufy Of Himalayan Buddhism.
Author : Olivier Föllmi
Publisher :
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9780500511015
This book invites the reader on a journey to an exotic land and into one’s heart and soul. The pictures are accompanied throughout by contributions from nineteen eminent specialists on the region, who discuss the culture, customs, politics and faith of the Himalayan world; past and present. Reflecting not only the cycle of human existence but also the history of the Himalayas, this lavish volume offers an unparalleled insight into Himalayan Buddhism in the 21st century.
Author : Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1590308085
With over fifteen hundred entries and forty-six illustrations, A Concise Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen is the most complete compact reference work of its kind available in the English language. It is designed not only for students and meditators but also as a tool to help familiarize all readers with Buddhist terms and concepts—such as chakra, karma, koan, nirvana, and tantra—that are encountered with increasing regularity in the literature of a wide range of fields today. The lives and teachings of important philosophers and meditation masters, the variety of practices, the basic texts and scriptures, and the range of sects and schools of thought are among the subjects covered. Pronunciation tables, a comprehensive bibliography, and a Ch’an/Zen lineage chart are also provided.
Author : John Powers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 153813022X
Historical Dictionary of Tibet, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource for Tibetan history, politics, religion, major figures, prehistory and paleontology, with a primary emphasis on the modern period. It also covers the surrounding areas influenced by Tibetan religion and culture, including India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Central Asia, and Russia. It contains a chronology, a glossary, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Tibet.
Author : Annabella Pitkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226816923
"In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama wandered like a beggar across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters and living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this ragged beggar-yogi became a revered teacher of the current Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At his death in 1977, he was mourned by Himalayan nuns, Tibetan lamas, and American meditators alike. The myriad surviving stories about Khunu Lama reveal unexpected forms of Tibetan Buddhism, shedding new light on questions of secularism, religion, and what it means to be modern. In Beggar Modern, Annabella Pitkin explores the emotionally charged Tibetan Buddhist imaginaries of renunciation, devotion, and the teacher-student lineage relationship as resources for Tibetan Buddhist approaches to modernity. By examining narrative accounts of the life of a remarkable twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist and focusing on his remembered identity as a renunciant bodhisattva, Pitkin illuminates Tibetan and Himalayan practices of memory, reinvention, and mourning. Refuting longstanding caricatures of Tibetan Buddhist communities as unable to be modern because of their religious commitments, Pitkin shows instead how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Tibetan Buddhists have used precisely the cultural resources that connect them to their past as vital tools for creating new futures"--
Author : John Crook
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2001-12-31
Category :
ISBN : 9788120812017
Preface, PART One: Introduction to the Philosophy of Navya-Nyaya, PART Two: Summaries of Works, Notes, Index.
Author : E. Gene Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0861711793
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 : Loden Sherap Dagyab
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0861718100
In this fascinating study, Dagyab Rinpoche not only explains the nine best-known groups of Tibetan Buddhist symbols but also shows how they serve as bridges between our inner and outer worlds. As such, they can be used to point the way to ultimate reality and to transmit a reservoir of deep knowledge formed over thousands of years.
Author : Donald J. LaRocca
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Armor
ISBN : 1588391809
The first in-depth examination of the fascinating and virtually unknown of armor and weapons from Tibet, dating from the 13th to the 20th century.
Author : Matthew Kapstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199735123
What does Tibetan Buddhism teach? Just what is the position of the Dalai Lama, and how will his succession be assured? This Very Short Introduction offers a brief account responding to these questions and more, in terms that are easily accessible to those who are curious to learn the most essential features of Tibetan Buddhist history, teachings, and practice.