Religions Of Tibet

Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069112972X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religions of Tibet in Practice written by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition--abridged to further facilitate course use--presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries. Organized thematically, the twenty-eight chapters are testimony to the vast scope of religious practice in the Tibetan world, past and present. Religions of Tibet in Practice remains a work of great value to scholars, students, and general readers.

Author : Tucci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136179453
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religions Of Tibet written by Tucci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little is known in the West about Tibetan Buddhism in comparison with other eastern religions. This is partly because the vast literature which it has produced, and which illuminates its history, is still far from accessible. In addition there exists a deep division between monastic Lamaism and religion as it is lived by the people: the former is fragmented into many schools, while the latter shows numerous regional variations. The first comprehensive account of Tibetan Buddhism to be published in English since Waddell's "Buddhism of Tibet" appeared in 1894, this translation is certain to become the standard reference work on the subject.

Author : Helmut Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429806183
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religions of Tibet written by Helmut Hoffmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1961, examines the old Tibetan Bon religion, the development of Buddhism in India and Tibet, and covers the religious struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries. It also describes the rise of the Lamaist sects and the priest state of the Dalai Lamas, and taken as a whole is a study of the development of the character of Tibet itself.

Author : Giuseppe Tucci
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520063481
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religions of Tibet written by Giuseppe Tucci and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-08-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the historical background and description of Buddhism in Tibet, clarifying the uniqueness of Tibetan Buddhism.

Author : Melvyn C. Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920058
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet written by Melvyn C. Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of that revival is the focus of this book. Four leading specialists in Tibetan anthropology and religion conducted case studies in the Tibet autonomous region and among the Tibetans of Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. There they observed the revival of the Buddhist heritage in monastic communities and among laypersons at popular pilgrimages and festivals. Demonstrating how that revival must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a complex process of social, political, and economic adaptation. Buddhism has long been the main source of Tibetans' pride in their culture and country. These essays reveal the vibrancy of that ancient religion in contemporary Tibet and also the problems that religion and Tibetan culture in general are facing in a radically altered world.

Author : Charles Bell
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120810501
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religion of Tibet written by Charles Bell and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incl. illust. and maps - Buddhism, China, Tibet, History

Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231147163
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of the Book in Tibet written by Kurtis R. Schaeffer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens responsible for Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself. A meticulous study that draws on more than 150 understudied Tibetan sources, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is the first volume to trace this singular history, allowing for a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau.

Author : Per Kværne
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bon Religion of Tibet written by Per Kværne and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bon religion claims to be the original and authentic religion of the Tibetan people, and to have been firmly established in the Land of Snows long before Buddhism was introduced in the seventh century AD. Although its adherents were gradually reduced to a minority, Bon has nevertheless continued to flourish in many areas up to the present day in Tibet, especially in the eastern and north-eastern regions where a reconstruction and renaissance is taking place, as well as within the Bon community in exile in India. The iconography of the Bon religion is presented through a series of thangkas, miniatures and bronzes from public and private collections in the West, as well as from communities within Tibet and in exile. With a few exceptions they are hitherto unpublished and date from the late fourteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The peaceful, tutelary, protector and local deities as well as the Bon siddhas, lamas and dakinis are identified and fully described by means of excerpts from ritual or biographical texts which are translated here for the first time.

Author : Kvaerne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004666672
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibet: Bon Religion written by Kvaerne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Bell
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120810694
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion of Tibet written by Charles Bell and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume forms a sequel to the author`s Tibet: Past and Present and The people of Tibet. Like them, it is in part a historical account, in part a description of conditions in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Sir Charles Bell traces the history of the introduction to Buddhism, of the resistance and general decay of the older magic-worship of Ponism, and of the developments which have taken place within Tibetan Buddhism itself. The latter part of the book deals more particularly with the religious organization, with life in the great monasteries and with the religious customs and beliefs of the people. The illustrations are from the author`s own photographs taken in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan.