Grains of Gold : Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler /

In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chopel, Gendun (Autor)
Otros Autores: Jinpa, Thupten (Contribuidor), Jr., Donald S. Lopez (Contribuidor), Lopez Jr., Donald S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Colección:Buddhism and Modernity
Temas:
Buddhism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
HISTORY / General.
travelogue, exoticism, india, sri lanka, tibet, dalai lama, treason, political prisoner, modernity, british colony, colonialism, south asia, history, ethnography, drawings, illustrations, maps, 20th century, sacred sites, buddhism, sanskrit, classics, pilgrimage, folklore, legend, china, lhasa, dharma king asoka, gupta, dynasty, pala, singhala, linguistics, tibetan language, tirthikas, religion, spirituality, customs, native plants, mount girnar, snow mountains, nonfiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. First, How I Set Out from Lhasa
  • 2. General Formation of the Land of India and How It Acquired Its Name
  • 3. How the Lands Were Given Th eir Names
  • 4. The Snow Mountains of the North and Analysis of Related Issues
  • 5. What the Famous Places of the Past Are Like
  • 6. On Men, Women, Food, Drink, and Various Apparel
  • 7. Identification of Various Species of Flowers and Trees and How to Recognize Th em
  • 8. Writing Systems of Various Lands of Past and Present
  • 9. On the Linguistic Rules of the Tibetan Language
  • 10. The Inscriptions of the Dharma King Aśoka Carved on the Rock Face of Mount Girnar
  • 11. The Gupta Dynasty
  • 12. The Pāla Dynasty
  • 13. From 1,600 Years aft er the Passing of the Buddha to the Present
  • 14. On the History of Siṅghala
  • 15. On the Conditions and the Customs of the Tibetan People in Ancient Times
  • 16. The Religion of the Tīrthikas
  • 17. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Tibetan Transliteration
  • Appendix B: Glossary of Terms
  • Notes
  • Index

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