Download or read book Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism written by Antoinette K. Gordon and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism is an authoritative text on the specifically Tibetan branch of Buddhism—one which possesses a rich visual history of Buddhist art and Iconagraphy. This book gives a descriptive outline of the principal gods in the Tibetan pantheon, tracing the main features and symbols that are used to denote each one. A Comprehensive illustrated list of the various ritual objects, talismans, symbols, mudras (symbolic hand poses), and asanas and vahanas (position of the lower limbs) that are used in the images of the gods is accompanied with a word list of the Sanskrit terms most commonly encountered in a study of Lamaism. A set of thirty-one thang-kas from the famous collection of Baron A. von Stael-Holstein, formerly of Peking, China, which came to America after the publication of the original edition of the book, has been included in this new and revised edition.

Download or read book The Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1991 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Notes On Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism And Mythology And Its Relations To Indian Buddhism.

Download or read book The Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lamaism in Sikhim written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Himalayan Dialogue written by Stan Mumford and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mountain valleys of Nepal, Tibetan communities have long been established through migrations from the North. Because of these migrations over the last few centuries, Tibetan lamaism, as one of the world's great ritual traditions, can be studied in the Himalayas as a process that emerges through dialogue with the more ancient shamanic tradition which it confronts and criticizes. Here for the first time is a thorough anthropological study of Tibetan lamaism combining textual analysis with richly contextualized ethnographic data. The rites studied are of the Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist tradition. In contrast to the textual analyses that have viewed the culture as a finished entity, here we see an unbounded ritual process with unfinished interpretations. Mumford's focus is on the "dialogue" taking place between the lamaist and the shamanic regimes, as a historic development occurring between different cultural layers. The study powerfully demonstrates that interrelationships between subsystems within a given cultural matrix over time are critical to an understanding of religion as a cultural process.

Download or read book Buddhism and Lamaism of Tibet written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prisoners of Shangri La written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapter Three: The Eye -- Chapter Four: The Spell -- Chapter Five: The Art -- Chapter Six: The Field -- Chapter Seven: The Prison -- Notes -- Index

Download or read book Enthralled written by Christine A. Chandler C.A.G.S. and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism has grown among many demographics in the United States and the West, today. The Dalai Lama and his 'Buddhism' has been promoted as bringing more 'peace, harmony, and compassion' to the world. Now the Dalai Lama and his inner circle of western devotees and fans are promoting his MIndfulness as the key to physical, mental and spiritual health. By explaining the true nature of Tibetan Lamaism and its Tantric roots, as well as the cult methods of recruitment and entrapment that the Tibetan Lamas use, the author opens the eyes of westerners to the dangers Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and its influences continue to present to our open, democratic and free societies.

Download or read book The Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism with Its Mystic Cults Symbolism and Mythology and in Its Relation to Indian Buddhism written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism written by Laurence A. Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Religion of Tibet written by J. E. Ellam and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tibetan Civilization written by Rolf Alfred Stein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overall view of the Tibetan civilization, both ancient and modern Tibet. This book relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia.

Download or read book The Religions of Mongolia written by Walther Heissig and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study Walther Heissig focuses on the existence in Mongolia of religious forms which have more ancient roots even than Buddhism. Professor Heissig is mainly concerned in the present book with those beliefs and concepts which belong to the non-Buddhist folk religion of the Mongols.

Download or read book Buddhism of Tibet Or Lamaism written by L. Austine Waddell and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.

Download or read book Buddhism Lamaism of Tibet written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tibetan Book of the Dead written by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imagining Tibet written by Thierry Dodin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century, the Western view of Tibet has evolved from an exotic Shangri-la filled with golden idols and the promise of immortality, to a peaceful land with an enlightened society now ravaged by outside aggression. How and why did our perception change? How accurate are our modern conceptions of Tibet? Imagining Tibet is a collection of essays that reveal these Western conceptions. Providing an historical background to the West's ever-changing relationship with Tibet, Donald Lopez, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jamyang Norbu, and other noted scholars explore a variety of topics - from Western perceptions of Tibetan approaches to violence, monastic life, and life as a nation in exile, to representations of Tibet in Western literature, art, environmentalism, and the New Age movement.