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Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book is the first collection and translation in English of Rolf Stein's groundbreaking series of articles on Tibetan history, Tibetica antiqua. Drawing on the earliest available sources, Stein discusses the Tibetan transition to Buddhism, a transition influenced by both Indian and Chinese culture and cultural competition.

The Many Faces of King Gesar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

The Many Faces of King Gesar

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-01-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Tibetan Gesar epic has known countless retellings, translations, and academic studies. The Many Faces of Ling Gesar, presents its historical, cultural, and literary aspects for the first time in a single volume for both general readers and specialists.

Bibliographie Internationale de L'histoire Des Religions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Bibliographie Internationale de L'histoire Des Religions

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General Catalogue of Printed Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1138

General Catalogue of Printed Books

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Eurasian Mythology in the Tibetan Epic of Ge-sar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Eurasian Mythology in the Tibetan Epic of Ge-sar

Focusing on Tibet and Tibetan Muslims, this book attempts to illustrate historical accounts of the Muslim community in Tibet.

Food of Sinful Demons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Food of Sinful Demons

Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet historically most Tibetans—both monastic and lay—have made meat a regular part of their diet. In this study of the place of vegetarianism within Tibetan religiosity, Geoffrey Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating. Food of Sinful Demons shows the centrality of vegetarianism to the cultural history of Tibet through specific ways in which nonreligio...

The theatre of Tibet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

The theatre of Tibet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-04-05T00:00:00+02:00
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  • Publisher: Mimesis

he theatrical culture of Tibet is probably the last to remain virtually unknown to the outside world, and to the West in particular. As well as describing the current situation of studies on Tibetan theatre, the current volume also provides an essay on imagination and how it is concretely manifested by the Tibetan people and their actors. Recent decades have seen radical change for Tibetan theatre, ache lhamo, now performed by a diaspora for whom a declining artistic and technical change derives from an uncertain politics concerning secular and popular culture, as well as the ongoing cultural genocide caused by China’s subjection of Tibet.

Britain and Tibet 1765-1947
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 610

Britain and Tibet 1765-1947

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-11-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and articles in their historical context. This work is both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry into a complex area for scholars in the fields of international relations and military history as well as Asian history.

Guide to Buddhist Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Guide to Buddhist Religion

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Cumulated Index Medicus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1280

Cumulated Index Medicus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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