The Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism conversion, contestation, and memory
A brief chronology of Tibetan Buddhism.Introduction: Death, literacy, and Tibet's Buddhist elite. -- The Chinese mother of Tibet's Dharma-king: The testament of Ba and the beginnings of Tibetan Buddhist historiography. -- The mark of vermilion: rebirth and resurrection in an early medieval...
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Oxford, New York
Oxford University Press
2000
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A brief chronology of Tibetan Buddhism.Introduction: Death, literacy, and Tibet's Buddhist elite. -- The Chinese mother of Tibet's Dharma-king: The testament of Ba and the beginnings of Tibetan Buddhist historiography. -- The mark of vermilion: rebirth and resurrection in an early medieval tale. -- Plague, power, and reason: the royal conversion to Buddhism reconsidered. -- From Korea to Tibet: action at a distance in the early medieval world system. -- What is "Tibetan scholasticism"?: three ways of thought. -- The purificatory gem and its cleansing: a late polemical discussion of apocryphal texts. -- The imaginal persistence of the empire. -- Samantabhadra and Rudra: myths of innate enlightenment and radical evil. -- The amnesic monarch and the five mnemic men: "memory" in the great perfection tradition. -- Appendix: The prayer of great power. Literaturverz. S. [275] - 303. Index |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index. - Bibliography |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 316 S. Ill. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0195131223 0-19-513122-3 9780195131222 978-0-19-513122-2 |