Sources of Mongolian Buddhism

Vesna A. Wallace is Professor of South Asian Religions and Inner Asian Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has authored and translated four books on Indian Buddhism. Her most recent book is an edited volume on Mongolian Buddhism titled Buddhism in Mongolian Culture, History, and Society.

This volume constitutes an excellent window into this understudied field.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationContributors IntroductionVesna Wallace Part I: Two Early Seventeenth-Century Texts The Stone Inscription of Covtu TaijiBrian Bauman Siregetü Güüsi Corji's Treatise Containing the Complete Meanings of the Most Important [Doctrinal Concepts] to be UsedAgata Bareja-Starzynska Part II: Autobiography and Biography The Autobiography of the First Khalkha Zaya Pandita Lobsang TrinleySangseraima Ujeed Zava Damdin's Beautifying Ornament for the Mind of the Faithful: A Praise-Biography of my Root Lama Vajradhara, He Who Possesses the Three Types of Kindness, the Great Madapandita Endowed with Excellent Discipline and Learning Named "Sanjaa"Matthew W. King Part III: Buddhist Teachings A Trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb TendarErdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir Miscellaneous Writings of Caqar Gebsi LuvsancültemMatthew W. King Teachings of the Pious Fat Pandita TsevelvaanchigdorjiVesna A. Wallace Mergen Gegeen's Didactic PoetryUranchimeg Ujeed Part IV: Buddhist Didactic Poetry Buddhist Literature of Danzan RavjaaSimon Wickham-Smith Part V: Buddhist Ritual Texts Khalkha Zaya Pandita's Smoke Offering Rituals to the Khangai Mountain RangeKrisztina Teleki Ritual Texts of Mergeen GegeenUranchimeg Ujeed Ritual Texts of Prosperity and PurificationVesna A. Wallace Ritual Texts Dedicated to the White Old Man with Examples from the Classical Mongolian and Oirat (Clear Script) Textual CorporaBirtalan Ágnes Incense Offering to the Lord Chinggis KhanMatthew W. King Caqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's Offering Ritual to the Fire GoddessBatsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg Ushkhbayar Three Ritual Prayers by Ondor Gegeen ZanabazarZsuzsa Mayer Part VI: Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries The Legend of Mother Tara the GreenBrian Baumann Oral Historical Narratives from the Early Twentieth CenturyAdrienne Gecse Part VII: Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth-Century Writings Zava Damdin's "A 1931 Survey of Mongolian Monastic Colleges"Matthew W. King Agwan Dorjiev's Questions about the Past and Future of Mongolian BuddhismMatthew W. King The Internal Regulations of Gandan Monastery in UlaanbaatarUranchimeg Tsultemin Agvaanyam's "The Origin of Human Beings and the Holy Dharma Kings and Ministers in Mongol Lands," from The History of the Dharma, The Lamp of Scriptures and ReasoningMatthew W. King Literary Treatments of Buddhism in the Period of TransitionSimon Wickham-Smith Part VIII: Contemporary Buddhist Writings Contemporary Buddhist Poetry and FictionSimon Wickham-Smith Index