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Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibet
Calling Down the Gods
Inbunden, 2005
3391 kr
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This book uniquely provides first-hand insights into the spirit-mediums of Upper Tibet, the men and women who channel the gods. John Vincent Bellezza here for the first time presents the conclusions of his extensive research in the region itself, shedding light on the historical context, the …
Peace and Conflict in Ladakh
The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order
Inbunden, 2006
2472 kr
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Long caught between powerful neighbours, Ladakh is now a border region in the vast Indian nation state. In this detailed, anthropological study Fernanda Pirie traces the ways order has been created by, but also despite and in defiance of, the powerful external forces of religion, war, politics and …
Nomads of Eastern Tibet
Social Organization and Economy of a Pastoral Estate in the Kingdom of Dege
Av Rinzin Thargyal, Toni Huber
Inbunden, 2007
1866 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege. Based …
Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet
Av Matthew Kapstein, Brandon Dotson
Inbunden, 2007
2366 kr
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The study of the rise and institutions of the Tibetan empire of the seventh to ninth centuries, and of the continuing development of Tibetan civilization during the obscure period that followed, have aroused growing interest among scholars of Inner Asia in recent decades. The six contributions …
Lamas, Shamans and Ancestors
Village Religion in Sikkim
Av Anna Balikci
Inbunden, 2008
2544 kr
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This careful study of the co-existence over time of Buddhism and shamanism among the Lhopo (Bhutia) people of Sikkim sheds new light on their supposedly hostile relationship. It examines the working relationships between Buddhist lamas and practitioners of bon, taking into consideration the sacred …
Enlightened Rainbows
The Life and Works of Shardza Tashi Gyeltsen
Inbunden, 2008
3326 kr
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Shardza Tashi Gyeltsen (1859-1934) is one of the most important luminaries of the Bon tradition of Tibet and certainly the most striking recent master of the teachings of the Great Perfection. Throughout his life, he applied the principles of the Great Perfection in numerous isolated retreats and …
Buddhism and Empire
The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet
Inbunden, 2009
3178 kr
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This book convincingly reassesses the role of political institutions in the introduction of Buddhism under the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842), showing how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Taking original sources as …
Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang
Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond
Inbunden, 2010
2464 kr
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Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity Vajrakīlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers …
Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua
With Additonal Materials
Av Rolf A. Stein, Arthur P. McKeown
Inbunden, 2010
3183 kr
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Tibetica antiqua represents the seminal work on Tibetan religious history by one of the foremost Tibetologists of the twentieth century. Herein, Stein discusses the cultural and religious interactions among Tibet, India, and China which resulted in what we now consider "Tibetan Buddhism" from the …
Crazy for Wisdom
The Making of a Mad Yogin in Fifteenth-Century Tibet
Inbunden, 2012
2527 kr
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In his early twenties, the Tibetan monk Sangyé Gyaltsen (1452–1507) left his monastery to become a wandering tantric yogin. As he moved from place to place, seeking enlightenment beyond the bounds of monasticism, his behavior became increasingly erratic. While some were shocked or even angered by …
Opening the Hidden Land
State Formation and the Construction of Sikkimese History
Av Saul Mullard
Inbunden, 2011
2458 kr
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In this first monograph on the history of Sikkim, the author challenges traditional Sikkimese historiography to rigourous historical enquiry by comparing it to original seventeenth and eighteenth century sources and exposes the contradictions founds within traditional narrative traditions. This …
Vision and Violence
Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet
Inbunden, 2012
2987 kr
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This book offers the first in-depth examination of the life and writings of Lama Zhang (1122-1193), key figure in the "Tibetan renaissance." Controversial, larger-than-life, already revered as a literary innovator and tantric meditation master, Zhang entered public life in mid-career and forged a …
Long Lives and Untimely Deaths
Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India
Inbunden, 2011
2439 kr
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Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain …
Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World
Inbunden, 2012
2986 kr
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Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia… This vast area has experienced significant changes following political and socio-cultural upheavals: the Chinese occupation of Tibet since the 1950s; the opening of Nepal to the world in 1951 and the influx of large numbers of Tibetan refugees into its territory; the end of …
Tibetan Inscriptions
Proceedings of a Panel Held at the Twelfth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010
Av Kurt Tropper
Inbunden, 2013
2177 kr
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Inscriptions are a rather neglected field within Tibetan Studies, because they are often located in places that are not easily accessible for both geographical and political reasons. It is thus especially welcome that two of the contributions to this volume deal with inscriptions documented on …
Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet
Inbunden, 2013
2114 kr
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In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Rebkong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic population and its complex religious history, …
Art and Architecture in Ladakh
Cross-cultural Transmissions in the Himalayas and Karakoram
Inbunden, 2014
3371 kr
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Art and Architecture in Ladakh shows how the region’s cultural development has been influenced by its location across the great communications routes linking India with Tibet and Central Asia. Edited by Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray, the collection contains 17 research papers by experienced …
Archaeology of Tibetan Books
Inbunden, 2014
2338 kr
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In Archaeology of Tibetan Books, Agnieszka Helman-Ważny explores the varieties of artistic expression, materials, and tools that have shaped Tibetan books over the millennia. Digging into the history of the bookmaking craft, the author approaches these ancient texts primarily through the lens of …
Kailas Histories
Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography
Av Alex McKay
Inbunden, 2015
2987 kr
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Tibet’s Mount Kailas is one of the world’s great pilgrimage centres, renowned as an ancient sacred site that embodies a universal sacrality. But Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography demonstrates that this understanding is a recent construction …
Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
Inbunden, 2016
3995 kr
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In Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change the editors publish the results of the workshop “Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond” held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013. This is the first study of the social and cultural history of Tibetan book technology …
Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism
The Life, Writings, and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen
Inbunden, 2016
2791 kr
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In Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism: The Life, Writings, and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen, James Duncan Gentry explores how objects of power figure in Tibetan religion, society, and polity through a study of the life of the Tibetan Buddhist ritual specialist Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen …
Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History
Inbunden, 2016
2104 kr
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In Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History the editors Jeannine Bischoff and Saul Mullard present a collection of studies of the mechanisms that regulated Tibetan societies from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Social regulations controlled, shaped and perpetuated Tibetan societies, but …
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine
Inbunden, 2019
2104 kr
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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of …
Mahāmudrā in India and Tibet
Inbunden, 2020
1892 kr
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Mahāmudrā in India and Tibet presents cutting-edge research by European and North American scholars on the Indian origins and Tibetan interpretations of one of the most popular and influential of all Tibetan meditation traditions, Mahāmudrā, or the great seal. The contributions shed fresh light on …
Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History
Transformations of sbas yul through Time
Inbunden, 2020
2022 kr
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In an era of environmental crisis, narratives of ‘hidden lands’ are resonant. Understood as sanctuaries in times of calamity, Himalayan hidden lands or sbas yul have shaped the lives of many peoples of the region. Sbas yul are described by visionary lamas called ‘treasure finders’ who located …
Divination in Exile
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition
Inbunden, 2020
1775 kr
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In Divination in Exile, Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the performance of divination in Tibetan speaking communities, both past and present. While Smith surveys a variety of ritual practices, the volume focuses on divination and its associated rites in …
Mardzong Manuscripts
Codicological and Historical Studies of an Archaeological Find in Mustang, Nepal
Av Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble
Inbunden, 2020
2343 kr
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In 2008, an international team of climbers discovered a large collection of Tibetan manuscripts in a cave complex called Mardzong, in Nepal’s remote Mustang district. The following year, the entire cache—over five thousand folios from some sixty different works of the Buddhist and Bön religions, …
Many Faces of King Gesar
Tibetan and Central Asian Studies in Homage to Rolf A. Stein
Av Matthew T. Kapstein, Charles Ramble
Inbunden, 2022
2117 kr
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The Tibetan Gesar epic, considered “the world’s longest poem,” has been the object of countless retellings, translations, and academic studies in the two centuries since it was first introduced to European readers. In The Many Faces of Ling Gesar, its many aspects—historical, cultural, and …
Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya
Av Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2274 kr
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The Eastern Himalaya holds perhaps the highest levels of ethnolinguistic diversity in all Eurasia, with over 300 languages spoken by as many distinct cultural groups. What factors can explain such diversity? How did it evolve, and what can its analysis teach us about the prehistory of its wider …
Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses
Av Alice Travers, Peter Schwieger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2150 kr
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The study of taxation is fundamental for understanding the construction of Tibetan polities, the nature of their power – often with a marked religious component – and their relationships with their subjects, as well as the consequences of taxation for social stratification. This volume takes the …
