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The Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism : conversion, contestation, and memory /
Thanks to the international celebrity of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism is attracting more attention than at any time in its history. There have been numerous specialist studies of individual Tibetan texts, however, this study focuses on the rich variety of types of Tibetan discourse. It brings to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Brief Chronology of Tibetan Buddhism
- 1. Introduction: Death, Literacy, and Tibet's Buddhist Elite
- pt. I. Conversion and Narrative
- 2. The Chinese Mother of Tibet's Dharma-King: The Testament of Ba and the Beginnings of Tibetan Buddhist Historiography
- 3. The Mark of Vermilion: Rebirth and Resurrection in an Early Medieval Table
- 4. Plague, Power, and Reason: The Royal Conversion to Buddhism Reconsidered
- pt. II. Sources of Contestation
- 5. From Korea to Tibet: Action at a Distance in the Early Medieval World System
- 6. What Is "Tibetan Scholasticism"? Three Ways of Thought
- 7. The Purificatory Gem and Its Cleansing: A Late Polemical Discussion of Apocryphal Texts
- pt. III. Myth, Memory, Revelation
- 8. The Imaginal Persistence of the Empire
- 9. Samantabhadra and Rudra: Myths of Innate Enlightenment and Radical Evil
- 10. The Amnesic Monarch and the Five Mnemic Men: "Memory" in the Great Perfection Tradition
- App. The Prayer of Great Power
- Tibetan References
- Sanskrit References
- Chinese References
- Western Language References.