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The Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism : conversion, contestation, and memory /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.