Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 8: Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas
Essays on History, Literature, Archaeology and Art
Biographical note
Amy Heller, diplôme of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1992), is affiliated with the Paris CNRS Tibetan studies unit since 1986. She has published extensively on Tibetan rituals and art history, as well as Tibetan Art, Tracing the development of art and spirituality in Tibet (1999) (translated into French, Italian and Spanish). She is currently studying the cultural history of Dolpo.
Giacomella Orofino, Ph.D. (1985) in Tibetan Studies, University of Rome "La
Sapienza", is Associate Professor of Tibetology at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". She is author of numerous books and articles on Indo-Tibetan religious literature, philology and cultural history.
Giacomella Orofino, Ph.D. (1985) in Tibetan Studies, University of Rome "La
Sapienza", is Associate Professor of Tibetology at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". She is author of numerous books and articles on Indo-Tibetan religious literature, philology and cultural history.
Readership
All those interested in the history of Western Tibet and Western Himalyas as evidenced in archaeology, architecture, Buddhist texts, Bonpo rituals, socio-economic dynamics, literature and art history.
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This volume brings together recent research findings that highlight the multi-ethnic and multi-religious composition of Rebkong, a frontier region located at the Sino-Tibetan border.
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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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