Sources of Tibetan Tradition

Schaeffer, Kurtis R. [u.a.] [Hrsg.]
Sources of Tibetan Tradition / edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2013. - ca. 832 S. : Kt. - (Introduction to Asian Civilizations)
ISBN 978-0-231-13598-6
US$ 120,00 / £ 83,00 (Hardback)
ISBN 978-0-231-13599-3
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DDC: 951.5
-- Angekündigt für März 2013 --

Beschreibung
The most comprehensive collection of classic Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social movements of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. It includes more than 180 representative writings of the Tibetan tradition, more than half never before translated into English. The perfect introduction to Tibetan culture for nonspecialists, this anthology also adds greater depth to the research and understanding of more advanced scholars.
   Selected texts span Tibet’s vast geography and nearly thirteen hundred years of history, featuring a diverse range of authors including religious and lay leaders; scholastic philosophers and contemplative hermits; monks and nuns; poets and artists; aristocrats and commoners. Their works reflect Buddhist sources and their profound role in shaping Tibetan culture but also illustrate other major categories of traditional Tibetan knowledge: medicine, the practical arts, linguistics, logic, and epistemology. Thematically varied as well, selections treat topics such as history and historiography; political and social theory; law; rhetoric; aesthetic theory; narrative; travel and geography; folksong; and broad religious and philosophical themes, all in relation to the unique trajectories of Tibetan civil and scholarly discourse. The editors begin each chapter with an explanation of broader social and cultural contexts and introduce each translated text with a concise explanation of the material. Concluding with writings that extend into the early twentieth century, this volume provides a truly expansive encounter with Tibet’s exceptional intellectual heritage. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface. xix
Acknowledgments. xxiii
Transcription and Transliteration Conventions. xxv
List of Contributors. xxvii
Dates in Tibetan History and Key Events in Neighboring Lands. xxix
Maps. xxxviii
PART ONE: POLITICAL EXPANSION AND THE BEGINNINGS OF TIBETAN BUDDHIST CULTURE (SEVENTH TO TENTH CENTURIES)
   1. Tibet in Medieval Chinese, Islamic, and Western Sources. 3
   2. Imperial Records from Dunhuang. 35
   3. Imperial Edicts from Central and Far Eastern Tibet. 57
   4. Institutions and Knowledge Under the Tibetan Empire. 87
   5. Early Religion and the Beginnings of Buddhism. 126
PART 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". 167
   7. The Proliferation of New Lineages. 189
   8. The Bön Tradition. 250
   9. The Development of Medical Tradition. 278
PART THREE: THE AGE OF MONASTIC AND ARISTOCRATIC HEGEMONIES: THE FLORESCENCE OF TIBETAN CULTURE (THIRTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES)
   10. Elaborating the Narratives of Tibetan Antiquity. 301
   11. Historians and Historical Documents of the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries. 326
   12. Explorations of Buddhist Doctrine. 371
   13. Literary Developments. 425
   14. Writings on Death and Dying. 446
   15. The Growth of the Arts and Sciences. 468
PART 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 School. 507
   17. The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Ganden Government. 531
   18. Aristocrats, Monks, and Hermits. 556
   19. Religious and Political Developments in Eastern Tibet. 585
   20. Encountering Other Cultures. 622
   21. Religious Writers in Amdo and Kham. 659
PART FIVE: EXPANDING HORIZONS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
   22. Early Twentieth-Century Tibetan Encounters with the West. 703
   23. Tibetans Addressing Modern Political Issues. 727
Credits. 757
For Further Reading. 765
Index. 773

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Kurtis R. Schaeffer is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the author of The Culture of the Book in Tibet and several other books, including Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. Profile page.
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, among many other publications. Profile page (EPHE, Paris), profile page (Univ. of Chicago).
Gray Tuttle is the Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibet in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the author of Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China and the editor of Mapping the Modern in Tibet. Profile page.

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