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The Tibetans
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2006.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transcription and Translation
- Maps
- 1 The Vessel and Its Contents
- High Peaks, Pure Earth
- Peasants, Nomads, and Traders
- The Tibetan Language
- 2 Prehistory and Early Legends
- Sources of Archeological Evidence
- Children of the Ape and the Ogress
- Tibetan Religion before Buddhism
- 3 The Tsenpo's Imperial Dominion
- The Rise of the Tibetan Empire
- Later Monarchs and the Promotion of Buddhism
- The Empire's Implosion
- 4 Fragmentation and Hegemonic Power
- Dynastic Successors and the Kingdom of Gugé
- The Buddhist Renaissance
- Mongols and Tibetan Buddhists
- Successive Hegemonies
- Tibetan Buddhism and the Ming Court
- 5 The Rule of the Dalai Lamas
- Monastics and Monarchs
- Between Mongols and Manchus
- Regency and Retreat
- Cultural Developments in Eastern Tibet
- The Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth
- 6 Tibetan Society
- Property, Economy, and Social Class
- Government and Law
- Marriage and Kinship
- Women in Traditional Tibet
- 7 Religious Life and Thought
- Propitiation, Therapy, and the Life-cycle
- Buddhist Basics
- Monastic Institutions and Education
- Tantrism and Yoga
- Major Orders and Schools
- Festivals, Pilgrimages, and Ritual Cycles
- 8 The Sites of Knowledge
- The Speech-Goddess's Mirror
- To Form Body, Speech, and Mind
- Medicine, Astronomy, and the Divinatory Sciences
- 9 Tibet in the Modern World
- The End of Traditional Tibet
- Rebellion and Exile
- The Promise and Peril of Century's End
- Notes
- Spellings of Tibetan Names and Terms
- Bibliography
- Index