Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

Name: Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism Conversion, Contestation, and Memory
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ISBN: 9780195131222

ISBN-10: 0195131223

ISBN-13: 9780195131222

Edition: 2000

Authors: Matthew T. Kapstein

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Thanks to the international celebrity of the present Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism is attracting more attention than at any time in its history. Although there have been numerous specialist studies of individual Tibetan texts, however, no scholarly work has as yet done justice to the rich variety of types of Tibetan discourse. This book fills this lacuna, bringing to bear the best methodological insights of the contemporary human sciences, and at the same time conveying to non-specialist readers an impression of the broad domain of Tibetan religious and philosophical thought. For over a millenium a Tibetan Buddhist intelligentsia produced a vast literature in which they explored the legacy…

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List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface


A Note on Pronunciation


A Brief Chronology of Tibetan Buddhism


Introduction Death, Literacy, and Tibet's Buddhist Elite



Conversion and Narrative



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



Sources of Contestation



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



Myth, Memory, Revelation



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


Notes


Chinese Glossary


Bibliography


Index