Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 14: Old Tibetan Studies
Dedicated to the Memory of R.E. Emmerick
Edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, University of Lausanne/École Pratique des hautes Études, Paris (France)
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Biographical note
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is Buddhologist and Tibetologist, and Secretary General of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. She is Professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Directeur d'Études at the École Pratique des hautes Études, Paris (France) and the author of several publications in the field of Old Tibetan Studies and Textual Transmission.
Table of contents
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Lausanne-Vienna) - Introduction
Books and Articles by Ronald E. Emmerick
Roland Bielmeier (Bern) - Ginger: A Khotanese Loanword in Modern Purik-Tibetan
Anne Chayet (Paris) - Aspects de la vie matérielle au Tibet ancien : notes préliminaires
Helga Uebach (Munich) - Tibetan Officials in the Eight Century South-eastern Part of the Empire
Kazushi Iwao (Kobe) - Organisation of the Chinese Inhabitants in Tibetan-ruled Dunhuang
Siglinde Dietz (Göttingen) - The bS.es pa'i phrin yig of Nāgārjuna in the Collection of the Tibetan Manuscripts from Dunhuang
Yoshiro Imaeda (Paris) - Re-examining the 9th Century Inscription at lDan ma brag (II) in Eastern Tibet
Bianca Horlemann - Buddhist Sites in A mdo and Former Longyou from the 8th to the 13th Century
Brandon Dotson (Oxford) - At the Behest of the Mountain: Gods, Clans and Political Topography in Post-Imperial Tibet
Takeuchi Tsuguhito (Kobe) - Old Tibetan Buddhist Texts from Post-Imperial Period (mid-9th to late 10th c.)
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Lausanne-Vienna) -Tibet. An Archaeology of the Written
Books and Articles by Ronald E. Emmerick
Roland Bielmeier (Bern) - Ginger: A Khotanese Loanword in Modern Purik-Tibetan
Anne Chayet (Paris) - Aspects de la vie matérielle au Tibet ancien : notes préliminaires
Helga Uebach (Munich) - Tibetan Officials in the Eight Century South-eastern Part of the Empire
Kazushi Iwao (Kobe) - Organisation of the Chinese Inhabitants in Tibetan-ruled Dunhuang
Siglinde Dietz (Göttingen) - The bS.es pa'i phrin yig of Nāgārjuna in the Collection of the Tibetan Manuscripts from Dunhuang
Yoshiro Imaeda (Paris) - Re-examining the 9th Century Inscription at lDan ma brag (II) in Eastern Tibet
Bianca Horlemann - Buddhist Sites in A mdo and Former Longyou from the 8th to the 13th Century
Brandon Dotson (Oxford) - At the Behest of the Mountain: Gods, Clans and Political Topography in Post-Imperial Tibet
Takeuchi Tsuguhito (Kobe) - Old Tibetan Buddhist Texts from Post-Imperial Period (mid-9th to late 10th c.)
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Lausanne-Vienna) -Tibet. An Archaeology of the Written
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The articles brought together in this volume not only deal with Tibetan inscriptions on such diverse writing supports as paper, temple walls, rocks and tsha tshas, they also span a wide range in respect to the contents of the historical and religious epigraphs discussed.
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Through ten contributions written by specialists, Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World examines the changes rituals have undergone in Tibet, Nepal and Mongolia in the wake of political and socio-cultural upheavals.
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Best known today as the author of the Life of Milarepa, Tsangnyön Heruka (1452–1507) was one of the most influential mad yogins of Tibet. Stefan Larsson’s Crazy for Wisdom, describes Tsangnyön Heruka's life, based on narratives by his disciples, and examines an unexpected aspect of ...
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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.
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The Handbook of Iconometry (ca. 1687) reproduces, in facsimile, a lavishly illustrated treatise describing the iconometic principles and measurements at the heart of the 17th-century art of Tibet. It includes over 150 drawings of buddhas, bodhisattvas and divinities, 70 script types and 14 stupa ...
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How do Tibetans in India's Darjeeling Hills understand the life-span and various life-forces that influence longevity? This book analyses ethnographic and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans utilise temporal frameworks in medical, astrological, divinatory, and ritual contexts to locate ...
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Using seventeenth and eighteenth century sources from the former Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, this book examines the construction of Sikkimese historiography and presents an interpretation of the history of state formation of Sikkim.
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Drawing a wide variety of texts and images from Dunhuang, the six original contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the development of Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China. Ritual, philosophy, and mortuary practice are among the topics considered.
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This book is the first collection and translation in English of Rolf Stein's groundbreaking series of articles on Tibetan history, Tibetica antiqua. Drawing on the earliest available sources, Stein discusses the Tibetan transition to Buddhism, a transition influenced by both Indian and Chinese ...
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A sustained argument for Tibetan independence, this volume also serves as an introduction to many aspects of Tibetan culture, society, and especially religion with a compendium of biographies of the most significant religious and political figures.
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