Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism
Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism

Author: Antoinette K. Gordon

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1462913199

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The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism is an authoritative text on the specifically Tibetan branch of Buddhism--one which possesses a rich visual history of Buddhist art and Iconagraphy. This book gives a descriptive outline of the principal gods in the Tibetan pantheon, tracing the main features and symbols that are used to denote each one. A Comprehensive illustrated list of the various ritual objects, talismans, symbols, mudras (symbolic hand poses), and asanas and vahanas (position of the lower limbs) that are used in the images of the gods is accompanied with a word list of the Sanskrit terms most commonly encountered in a study of Lamaism. A set of thirty-one thang-kas from the famous collection of Baron A. von Stael-Holstein, formerly of Peking, China, which came to America after the publication of the original edition of the book, has been included in this new and revised edition.

Prisoners of Shangri-La
Prisoners of Shangri-La

Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 022648548X

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapter Three: The Eye -- Chapter Four: The Spell -- Chapter Five: The Art -- Chapter Six: The Field -- Chapter Seven: The Prison -- Notes -- Index

Tibetan Civilization
Tibetan Civilization

Author: Rolf Alfred Stein

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780804709019

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An overall view of the Tibetan civilization, both ancient and modern Tibet. This book relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia.

Imagining Tibet
Imagining Tibet

Author: Thierry Dodin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0861711912

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In the past century, the Western view of Tibet has evolved from an exotic Shangri-la filled with golden idols and the promise of immortality, to a peaceful land with an enlightened society now ravaged by outside aggression. How and why did our perception change? How accurate are our modern conceptions of Tibet? Imagining Tibet is a collection of essays that reveal these Western conceptions. Providing an historical background to the West's ever-changing relationship with Tibet, Donald Lopez, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jamyang Norbu, and other noted scholars explore a variety of topics - from Western perceptions of Tibetan approaches to violence, monastic life, and life as a nation in exile, to representations of Tibet in Western literature, art, environmentalism, and the New Age movement.

Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages
Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages

Author: Ester Bianchi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9004468374

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Sino-Tibetan Buddhism implies cross-cultural contacts and exchanges between China and Tibet. The ten case-studies collected in this book focus on the spread of Chinese Buddhism within a mainly Tibetan environment and the adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism among a Chinese-speaking audience throughout the ages.

The Taming of the Demons
The Taming of the Demons

Author: Jacob P. Dalton

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0300153929

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The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "library cave" near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself. -- Georges Dreyfus