Download or read book Khams Or Eastern Tibet written by John Howard Jeffrey and published by Stockwell Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cultural Monuments of Tibet s Outer Provinces The Qinghai Part of Kham written by Andreas Gruschke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twenty Five Great Sites of Khams written by Alexander Patten Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is an exploration of a narrative map known as "The Twenty-five Great Sites of Khams." The map is a descriptive list of forty-two religious sites in the southwestern Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It was set forth in two separate versions in the second half of the nineteenth century. As an articulation of regional identity, the map projected religious and social values onto the mountainous terrain and established a geographic representation of Khams that included neither political borders nor administrative structure. Chapter One uses the initial version of the narrative map, produced in 1857 by the treasure revealer (gter ston) Mchog gyur gling pa (1829-1870), to investigate three interrelated issues: (1) the category of "sacred geography," (2) Tibetan strategies of representing space, and (3) the means by which its author used landscape to legitimate himself and his revelations, or "treasures" (gter ma, texts or objects said to have been concealed in the soil of Tibet to be discovered when the time was right). Chapter Two examines the normative tropes of treasure revelation narrative and finds that many elements of a given treasure's history are determined by certain narrative requirements that the tradition continues to maintain. I also argue that in some cases the rituals of revelation were performed not to produce treasure but to consecrate religious sites. Chapter Three examines the second version of the narrative map, composed by 'Jam mgon Kong sprul (1813-1899) in 1867. He composed it at a time when Khams's territorial integrity was threatened by an invading Tibetan army. The author is widely credited in the west with founding the so-called the "Rimay movement" which was supposedly a response to centuries of Tibetan sectarian prejudice and violence. This chapter reads the narrative map in a way that undermines that notion. It argues that while the map was in some ways a model of nonsectarianism, as it included sites associated with nearly all denominations of Tibetan Buddhism, it pointedly excluded from the religious geography of Khams the Dge lugs pa sect which at that time controlled the Tibetan government and army. In this way it established a geographic representation of Khams that symbolically preserved Khams's independence from Lhasa.
Download or read book Nomads of Eastern Tibet written by Rinzin Thargyal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege. Based upon extensive ethnographic interviews, this study yields a nuanced analysis of the most crucial and controversial relationship in premodern Tibetan societies, namely, that ensuing between local lords and their dependents. It convincingly readdresses anthropological debates and political claims about feudalism or serfdom in Tibetan societies from a perspective that is more sensitive to local historical, social, and economic contexts.
Download or read book The Rise of G npo Namgyel in Kham written by Yudru Tsomu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ascendancy of a minor nineteenth-century Tibetan chieftain Gönpo Namgyel who hailed from Eastern Kham, a frontier region situated between the power centers of Central Tibet and Qing China. For most of the nineteenth century, Gönpo Namgyel dominated the politics of Kham and posed a serious challenge to both the Qing and Lhasa regimes. The study explores the dynamics of local and national politics, as well as the tensions over power and authority between the two power centers. Drawing upon both Tibetan and Chinese primary sources, the study sheds new light on the governance and polity of the Kham region, enhancing our understanding of Sino-Tibetan conflicts regarding Kham from the nineteenth century, up to the mid-twentieth century. The book focuses on local events, rather than seeing history as shaped solely by the power centers. The rise of Gönpo Namgyel is situated within the context of the local politics of Kham while taking into consideration its relations with mid-nineteenth century Qing and Central Tibet. It further explores the social-cultural milieu that gave rise to this charismatic and controversial chief. A series of questions emerge concerning traditional historiographical practice, including the historical practices of Chinese and Tibetan scholars as well as approaches to the history of China and Tibet by Western scholars. Probing into history from a local perspective adds a new dimension to the study of nineteenth-century Sino-Tibetan relations. This research reveals that there is no single force determining history, nor are persons in the periphery mere passive observers of national events. The kings, governors, and chieftains in Kham were active in shaping their own regional identity and asserting their own terms in relation to the two power centers, demonstrating that the peripheries are equal partners in central-periphery relations, rather than passive recipients as has commonly been represented in earlier historical narratives.
Download or read book Khams Pa Histories written by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an indispensable introduction to local history of the Khams region of Eastern Tibet/Western China (with due attention for contemporary thinking about frontier regions), this volume contains seven papers on Khams pa (Eastern Tibet) Local, representing history, politics, and agency and their historiographical representations on the Khams frontiers. The articles have been arranged to reflect common themes, exploring the fluidity of the frontier and its turbulent dislocations, the individual figures and their engagement with Chinese and Tibetan social politics, and Khams in relation to Central Tibet.
Download or read book Nonsectarianism ris med in 19th and 20th Century Eastern Tibet written by Klaus-Dieter Mathes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking research by nine international Tibetan studies scholars on one of the most important developments in the history of Tibetan Buddhism, ris med, a period of religious tolerance.
Download or read book The Cultural Monuments of Tibet s Outer Provinces written by Andreas Gruschke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eastern Tibet written by Christoph Baumer and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Tibet is the cradle of Tibetan culture. Here, in Kham and Amdo, an intense exchange with neighboring regions took place as early as Neolithic times, while archaeological finds from tombs related to Hellenistic, Iranian, Sogdian, and Chinese societies testify to the cultural richness of the area in those later periods. In the first millennium of our era, Eastern Tibet reached international relevance, as three branches of the trade network called the Silk Roads passed through its borders. Since the 9th century, Eastern Tibet has also been a religious center, as seen by the Amdo roots of present XIVth Dalai Lama. The holistic life philosophy of the people of Eastern Tibet is shaped by the region's innate spiritual environment, its vast and undefiled landscapes, and its precious cultural treasures. Illustrated with more than 250 extraordinary color photographs, this is the first study dedicated solely to the culture of Eastern Tibet. It fills an important gap, not the least because more Tibetans live in Kham and Amdo than in the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region designated by the Peoples Republic of China. The thoroughly researched text is the result of field-work conducted by both authors over a period of several years, and the brilliant and inspiring images feature people, landscapes, and cultural objects often documented for the first time. Without an understanding of this important region, any perception of Tibetan culture remains fragmentary.
Download or read book A Grammar of Kham written by David E. Watters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.
Download or read book Monastic and Lay Traditions in North Eastern Tibet written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Rebkong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic population and its complex religious history, which incorporates both large Geluk monasteries and significant Nyingma and Bonpo lay tantric communities. Covering the nineteenth century to the present, this volume brings together ten papers that explore the relationship between religion and culture in Rebkong. Using insights from anthropology, history and religious studies, the contributors offer new research and fresh interpretations of this important region on China’s periphery, discussing issues of ethnicity and identity, the role of public institutions, and the role of religion and rituals.
Download or read book Frontier Tibet written by Stephane Gros and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People's Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier. The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham's own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies.
Download or read book Eastern Tibet written by Christoph Baumer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study dedicated solely to the culture of Eastern Tibet, the cradle of Tibetan culture. The thoroughly researched text is the result of fieldwork conducted by both authors over a period of several years. The brilliant and inspiring images
Download or read book Kham Tibetan English Colloquial Phrase Book written by Judith Rygaard Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primer for teaching the Kham dialect of eastern Tibet, i.e. the dialect of Dege (Sde-dge) County in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province; arranged topically with sentences in Tibetan typeface, and English parsing and translation.
Download or read book Medicine and Memory in Tibet written by Theresia Hofer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet�s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitioners, or amchi, and of Medical Houses in the west-central region of Tsang. Due to difficult research access and the power of state institutions in the writing of history, the perspectives of more marginal amchi have been absent from most accounts of Tibetan medicine. Theresia Hofer breaks new ground both theoretically and ethnographically, in ways that would be impossible in today�s more restrictive political climate that severely limits access for researchers. She illuminates how medical practitioners safeguarded their professional heritage through great adversity and personal hardship.
Download or read book Khams pa An Epic of Tibetan People written by Thazi and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《康巴：一部藏人的心灵史诗》试图从三个信仰不同家族的人物命运呈现那段用智慧构建和平的心灵秘史；看见用苯教咒术进行血腥复仇的过程中迸发出的人性之爱；透视一段基于不同的文化观念对同一事物的不同理解而导致的传奇人生。
Download or read book Sacred Visions written by Steven Kossak and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying an exhibition to be held in New York during late fall of 1998, Sacred Visions is a superbly illustrated volume of art works from the 11th to the mid-15th centuries which includes scholarly essays that relate to the paintings to be displayed.
