The Monastery Rules
The Monastery Rules

Author: Berthe Jansen

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0520297008

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca’ yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions’ influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.

Authorized Lives
Authorized Lives

Author: Elijah Ary

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1614291802

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Delve into the biographies of Tsongkhapa, Khedrup, and Jetsunpa. In Authorized Lives, Elijah Ary, former Geluk monk, recognized tulku, and Harvard-trained scholar, looks at various commonly accepted conceptions of Tsongkhapa's biography. He demonstrates how these conceptions evolved in the decades after his death. Authorized Lives is the first work devoted to early Geluk history and to the role of biographies in shifting established lineages. As the dominant tradition of Tibetan Buddhism that provides the intellectual backdrop for the Dalai Lama's teachings, the Geluk lineage traces its origins to the figure of Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa (1357-1419). Gelukpas today believe Tsongkhapa is a manifestation of the bodhisattva Manjushri and revere him with his two heart disciples, Gyaltsap and Khedrup. But as Elijah Ary, a former Geluk monk and Harvard-trained scholar, points out, both of these conceptions of Tsongkhapa arose many decades after his death. Delving into the early Geluk biographical tradition, Ary follows the tracks of this evolution in the biographies of Tsongkhapa, Khedrup, and the influential early Geluk writer and reformer Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen.

The Tibetan History Reader
The Tibetan History Reader

Author: Gray Tuttle

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 0231144695

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Answering a critical need for an accurate, in-depth history of Tibet, this single-volume resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies. Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, the volume is organized chronologically and regionally to complement courses in Asian and religious studies and world civilizations. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, this anthology offers both a general and ..

Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography
Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography

Author: Lokesh Chandra

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces along with the profusion of masters and divine beings around them.The last few decades have seen an exuberant flourishing of the study and popularisation of the patrimony of Buddhist art for its aesthetic magnificence.This Dictionary will add a dimension of precision and depth of perception to the visual tradition of paintings and sculptures.

མཁས་མང་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་བསྟི་གནས་དབུས་འགྱུར་གདན་ས་ཆེན་པོ་གསུམ་གྱི་ཡ་གྱལ་སེ་ར་ཐེག་ཆེན་གླིང་གི་ཆོས་འབྱུང་རབ་གསལ་ནོར་བུའི་མེ་ལོང་།
མཁས་མང་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་བསྟི་གནས་དབུས་འགྱུར་གདན་ས་ཆེན་པོ་གསུམ་གྱི་ཡ་གྱལ་སེ་ར་ཐེག་ཆེན་གླིང་གི་ཆོས་འབྱུང་རབ་གསལ་ནོར་བུའི་མེ་ལོང་།

Author: Champa Thupten Zongtse

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13:

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The present book is dedicated to the history of Sera,along with Ganden and Drepung,one of the three great monastic universities of the dGe-lugs-pa School around Lhasa.

Sources of Tibetan Tradition
Sources of Tibetan Tradition

Author: Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 853

ISBN-13: 0231509782

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The most comprehensive collection of Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social development of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. Including more than 180 representative writings, Sources of Tibetan Tradition spans Tibet's vast geography and long history, presenting for the first time a diversity of works by religious and political leaders; scholastic philosophers and contemplative hermits; monks and nuns; poets and artists; and aristocrats and commoners. The selected readings reflect the profound role of Buddhist sources in shaping Tibetan culture while illustrating other major areas of knowledge. Thematically varied, they address history and historiography; political and social theory; law; medicine; divination; rhetoric; aesthetic theory; narrative; travel and geography; folksong; and philosophical and religious learning, all in relation to the unique trajectories of Tibetan civil and scholarly discourse. The editors begin each chapter with a survey of broader social and cultural contexts and introduce each translated text with a concise explanation. Concluding with writings that extend into the early twentieth century, this volume offers an expansive encounter with Tibet's exceptional intellectual heritage.