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Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 6  Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 6 Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essential readings in the emerging field of Tibetan literary studies offer specialists and non-specialists provocative new studies of contemporary Tibetan literature and criticism, ranging from discussions of individual works to theoretical interventions. The nature of Tibetan literature as both a regional voice within China and a transnational voice in the world is explored by L. Hartley on the relationship between the terms rtsom-rig, wen, and literature, F. Robin on historical fiction, L. Maconi on literature in the Yunnan Tibetan areas, T. Dhondup on Mongolian-Tibetan writers, J. Drakpa on poetic explication, P. Schiaffini on the creation of Tibetan subjectivities, F.X. Erhard on magical realism, and Gray Tuttle’s interview with writer and critic Pema Bhum.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 6  Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 6 Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies written by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides essential readings in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Tibetan literary studies. Chapters range from discussions of individual contemporary texts to theoretical interventions in literary and Tibetan studies.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 11  Tibetan Modernities

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 11 Tibetan Modernities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major publication in the West to study modernity and its impact on contemporary Tibet. Based on field work by researchers from the fields of anthropology, sociology, environmental science, literature, art and linguistics, it presents essays on education, economics, childbirth, environment, caste, pop music, media and painting in Tibetan communities today. The findings emerge from studies carried out in Ladakh, Golok, Lhasa, Xining, Shigatse and other areas of the Tibetan world. It will provide important and sometimes surprising results for students of Tibet, China, Himalayan studies, as well as an important contribution to our understandings of modernity and development in the modern world.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 4  Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 4 Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers provide access for the first time to Tibetan documents and practices from the period of the tenth to fifteenth century.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 2  Tibetan Borderlands

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 2 Tibetan Borderlands written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetan Borderlands examines modern culture and recent history of the varied lands surrounding the Tibetan plateau. These include Ladakh, Northern India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Northern Burma, and China.

Book Tibetan Literary Genres  Texts  and Text Types

Download or read book Tibetan Literary Genres Texts and Text Types written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types investigate specific Tibetan genres and texts as well as genre classification, transformation, and reception. The text types examined range from oral trickster narratives to songs, offering-rituals, biographies, and modern literature.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 12  Buddhism Beyond the Monastery

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 12 Buddhism Beyond the Monastery written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monasteries have been the locus classicus of the academic investigation of Tibetan religions. This volume seeks to balance this emphasis with an exploration of the diverse religious specialists who operate outside of the monastery in Tibet and along the Himalayan belt. The articles collected here depict Tantric professionals, visionaries, village lamas, spirit mediums, and female religious leaders whose loyalties reside in the noncelibate sphere but whose activities have had a significant impact on Tibetan religion. Using methodologies drawn from anthropological and textual scholarship, these seven essays bolster our understanding of religious practices and their performers beyond the monasteries of Central and Eastern Tibet, Bhutan, and India from historical times to the present day.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 8  Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 8 Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent archaeological discoveries and scientific research especially focussed on western Tibet and the western Himalayas have resulted in a remarkable redefinition of the historical and cultural processes of the entire Indo-Tibetan civilisation. The present volume reflects these sometimes startling new insights for the first time, covering the wide time range from the Zhang zhung period up to the 20th century, spanning secular, religious and economic history, as well as art and archaeology.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 14  Old Tibetan Studies

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 14 Old Tibetan Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Tibetan Studies, edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is an inquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The volume is written with the intent to confront facts and textualization and contribute to the clarification of particular aspects of the administrative and legislative organization, the ecclesiastical institution, and the religious, monastic, intellectual and material culture of Old Tibet and its borderlands. The material is critically examined from different perspectives, focusing on classical disciplines (history, linguistics, lexicography, philology, codicology and diplomatics). With contributions by Roland Bielmeier, Anne Chayet, Helga Uebach, Kazushi Iwao, Siglinde Dietz, Yoshiro Imaeda, Bianca Horlemann, Brandon Dotson,Tsuguhito Takeuchi and Cristina Scherrer-Schaub.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 9  The Mongolia Tibet Interface

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 9 The Mongolia Tibet Interface written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and aims to create a platform to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. This forum lets new materials emerge and brings to the fore a variety of different approaches to studying Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and societies. The papers in this volume deal not only with the substantial Mongolian contribution to and engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, but also with multiple readings of shared history and religion, reconstruction of traditions, shifting ethnic boundaries and the broader political context of the Mongolian-Tibetan relationship.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 5  Bhutan

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 5 Bhutan written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated volume presents a wide variety of themes from the historical and modern periods of Bhutan, illustrating change and adaptation to new realities. Topics covered include the exploration of early history, Buddhism and the lives of Bhutanese Buddhist saints, the changing role of local, non-Buddhist religious practitioners in today’s society, traditional law and the emergence of a modern legal system, and the seasonal celebrations of an aristocratic family from central Bhutan. The book will be of special interest to students of early Tibetan history, legal history, comparative sociology and cultural anthropology of the Himalayan regions.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 10  Soundings in Tibetan Medicine

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 10 Soundings in Tibetan Medicine written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, for the first time Tibetan Medicine is approached from a combination of anthropology and history. These two disciplines appear to be vital to come to understand Tibetan medical knowledge and practice as being complex, diverse and dynamic phenomena which reflect changing social and historical conditions at the same time while also appealing to or preserving an older canon of traditions. Part One examines the impacts of various modernities in Tibet, the Himalayan borderlands and the Tibetan exile, including standardisation and scientization of Tibetan medicine. Part Two investigates the transmission and professionalisation of medical knowledge and its role in identity construction. Part Three traces connections between various body images, practices, and cosmologies in Tibetan societies and how mental and physical illnesses are understood. Part Four critically presents new or little known histories, commentarial practices, textual narratives and oral sources for investigating the history of Tibetan medicine.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 13  Art in Tibet

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 13 Art in Tibet written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume discuss issues related to Tibetan art from the 7th the 20th century, dealing with relevant religious and historical sources, religious painting and iconography, medical iconography, painting materials and schools, metalwork, ritual objects, photographic records, artists.

Book The Mongolia Tibet Interface

Download or read book The Mongolia Tibet Interface written by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

Book Soundings in Tibetan Medicine

Download or read book Soundings in Tibetan Medicine written by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine provides fascinating new insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have been manifest in a range of traditional and contemporary Tibetan societies.

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 13  Art in Tibet

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 13 Art in Tibet written by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume discuss issues related to Tibetan art from the 7th the 20th century, dealing with relevant religious and historical sources, religious painting and iconography, medical iconography, painting materials and schools, metalwork, ritual objects, photographic records, artists.

Book Singer of the Land of Snows

Download or read book Singer of the Land of Snows written by Rachel H. Pang and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The singular role of Shabkar in the development of the idea of Tibet Shabkar (1781–1851), the “Singer of the Land of Snows,” was a renowned yogi and poet who, through his autobiography and songs, developed a vision of Tibet as a Buddhist “imagined community.” By incorporating vernacular literature, providing a narrative mapping of the Tibetan plateau, reviving and adapting the legend of Tibetans as Avalokiteśvara’s chosen people, and promoting shared Buddhist values and practices, Shabkar’s concept of Tibet opened up the discursive space for the articulation of modern forms of Tibetan nationalism. Employing analytical lenses of cultural nationalism and literary studies, Rachel Pang explores the indigenous epistemologies of identity, community, and territory that predate contemporary state-centric definitions of nation and nationalism in Tibet and provides the definitive treatment of this foundational figure.