Sources of Tibetan Tradition

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-13598-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 856 Seiten, Format (B × H): 200 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1312 g

Reihe: Introduction to Asian Civilizations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaeffer, Kurtis

Kapstein, Matthew T.

Tuttle, Gray

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranscription and Transliteration ConventionsList of ContributorsDates in Tibetan History and Key Events in Neighboring LandsMapsPART ONE. Political Expansion and the Beginnings of Tibetan Buddhist Culture (Seventh to Tenth Centuries)1. Tibet in Medieval Chinese2. Imperial Records from Dunhuang3. Imperial Edicts from Central and Far Eastern Tibet4. Institutions and Knowledge Under the Tibetan Empire5. Early Religion and the Beginnings of BuddhismPART TWO. Tibet in Fragments: From Empire to Monastic Principalities (Eleventh to Twelfth Centuries)6. Renewal and Rediscovery: The Later Diffusion of Buddhism and the Response of the "Ancients"7. The Proliferation of New Lineages8. The Bön Tradition9. The Development of Medical TraditionPART THREE. The Age of Monastic and Aristocratic Hegemonies: The Florescence of Tibetan Culture (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)10. Elaborating the Narratives of Tibetan Antiquity11. Historians and Historical Documents of the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries12. Explorations of Buddhist Doctrine13. Literary Developments14. Writings on Death and Dying15. The Growth of the Arts and SciencesPART FOUR. The Age of Centralization: The Rise of the Ganden Government and the Period of Its Bid for Cultural Hegemony (Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries)16. The Beginnings of the Gandenpa School17. The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Ganden Government18. Aristocrats19. Religious and Political Developments in Eastern Tibet20. Encountering Other Cultures21. Religious Writers in Amdo and KhamPART FIVE. Expanding Horizons in the Early Twentieth Century22. Early Twentieth-Century Tibetan Encounters with the West23. Tibetans Addressing Modern Political IssuesCreditsFor Further ReadingIndex 06_scha13598_00_toc.doc: viii

Über Autor(innen)

Kurtis R. Schaeffer is professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Culture of the Book in Tibet and Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. With Gray Tuttle, he is coeditor of The Tibetan History Reader.

Matthew T. Kapstein is director of Tibetan Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Tibetans and The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory.

Gray Tuttle is the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibet in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China and the editor of Mapping the Modern in Tibet. With Kurtis R. Schaeffer, he is coeditor of The Tibetan History Reader.