Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama
Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama

Author: Samten Gyaltsen Karmay

Publisher: Serindia Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0906026474

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A comprehensive history of West Tibet from the 10th to the 15th century, a period covered by a long-lost manuscript (mNga'.ris rgyal.rabs, by Gu.ge mkhan chan Ngag.dbang grags.pa), the only known source dealing systematically with the history of these kingdoms. The book relates the rise and fall of Buddhist sovereigns, their wide-ranging contacts with surrounding civilizations, and their close links with central Tibet. Genealogies of dynasties, political and religious laws issued by its rulers and narrative accounts are presented.

Tibetan Sacred Dance
Tibetan Sacred Dance

Author: Ellen Pearlman

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 2002-12

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780892819188

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From the time Buddhism entered the mythical land of the snows, Tibetans have expressed their spiritual devotion and celebrated their culture with dance. This book--lavishly illustrated with color and rare historic photographs depicting the dances, costumes, and masks--is the first to explore the significance and symbolism of the sacred and secular ritual dances of Tibetan Buddhism.

The Great Perfection (rDzogs Chen)
The Great Perfection (rDzogs Chen)

Author: Samten Gyaltsen Karmay

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9004151427

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The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan) is a philosophical and meditative teaching. Its inception is attributed to Vairocana, one of the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks ordained at Samye in the eight century A.D. The doctrine is regarded among Buddhists as the core of the teachings adhered to by the Nyingmapa school whilst similarly it is held to be the fundamental teaching among the Bonpos, the non-Buddhist school in Tibet. After a historical introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon, the author deals with the legends of Vairocana (Part I), analysing early documents containing essential elements of the doctrine and comparing them with the Ch'an tradition. He goes on to explore in detail the development of the doctrine in the tenth and eleventh centuries A.D. (Part II). The Tantric doctrines that play an important role are dealt with, as are the rDzogs chen theories in relation to the other major Buddhist doctrines. Different trends in the rDzogs chen tradition are described in Part III. The author has drawn his sources mainly from early unpublished documents which throw light on the origins and development, at the same time also using a variety of sources which enabled him to explicate the crucial position which the doctrine occupies in Tibetan religions.

Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama
Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama

Author: Dalai Lama VII Bskal-bzang-rgya-mtsho

Publisher: Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1999-09

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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The Seventh Dalai Lama (1708-1757) stands as one of the most beloved Buddhist masters in Tibet's long and illustrious history.

Taking the Result as the Path
Taking the Result as the Path

Author: Cyrus Stearns

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 0861717775

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The tradition known as the Path with the Result, or Lamdre, is the most important tantric system of meditation practice and theory in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains an unprecedented compilation of eleven vital works from different periods in the history of the Path with the Result in India and Tibet, including the Vajra Lines of the great Indian adept Virupa (ca. seventh-eighth centuries), the basic text of the tradition. The collection also includes six writings by Jamyang Khyentse Wangchuk (1524-68) and an instruction manual composed by the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-62). None of the works in this book have ever been published before in any European language, and most of these writings traditionally have been considered secret. The present translation, an important new volume of the Library of Tibetan Classics, has been made with the personal approval and encouragement of His Holiness Sakya Trizin, head of the Sakya tradition. Students of the Lamdre will rejoice at the availability and lucidity of this major translation of key Sakya texts.

The Illusive Play: the Autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama
The Illusive Play: the Autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama

Author: Dalai Lama V Ngag-dbang-blo-bzang-rgya-mtsho

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932476675

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The Illusive Play is an English translation of the autobiography of Ngawang Lobzang Gyatsho, the Fifth Dalai Lama. It is of exceptional value because it has taken such care to give a precise chronology throughout its entire length. It witnesses the life and culture of 17th-century Tibet, which was a formative period for the establishment of the Tibetan Buddhist theocracy.

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 ..

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9004404449

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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 Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People’s Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine. Contributors include: Henk W.A. Blezer, Yang Ga, Tony Chui, Katharina Sabernig, Tawni Tidwell, Tsering Samdrup, Carmen Simioli, William A. McGrath, Susannah Deane and Barbara Gerke