Sources of Mongolian Buddhism

Herausgeber: Wallace, Vesna A

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Produktbeschreibung

Mongolian Buddhists produced multi-lingual and genre-bending scholastic and ritual works that profoundly shaped historical consciousness, community identification, religious knowledge, and practices in Mongolian lands and beyond. In Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, a team of leading Mongolian scholars and authors have compiled a collection of original Mongolian Buddhist works for the first time in any European language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780190900694
• ISBN-10: 0190900695
• Artikelnr.: 56923429

Autorenporträt

Vesna A. Wallace is Professor of South Asian Religions and Inner Asian Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has authored and translated four books on Indian Buddhism. Her most recent book is an edited volume on Mongolian Buddhism titled Buddhism in Mongolian Culture, History, and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Notes on Transliteration
* Contributors
* Introduction
* Vesna Wallace
* Part I: Two Early Seventeenth-Century Texts
* The Stone Inscription of Covtu Taiji
* Brian Bauman
* Siregetü Güüsi Corji's Treatise Containing the Complete Meanings of
the Most Important [Doctrinal Concepts] to be Used
* Agata Bareja-Starzynska
* Part II: Autobiography and Biography
* The Autobiography of the First Khalkha Zaya Pandita Lobsang Trinley
* Sangseraima Ujeed
* Zava Damdin's Beautifying Ornament for the Mind of the Faithful: A
Praise-Biography of my Root Lama Vajradhara, He Who Possesses the
Three Types of Kindness, the Great Madapandita Endowed with Excellent
Discipline and Learning Named "Sanjaa"
* Matthew W. King
* Part III: Buddhist Teachings
* A Trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb Tendar
* Erdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir
* Miscellaneous Writings of Caqar Gebsi Luvsancültem
* Matthew W. King
* Teachings of the Pious Fat Pandita Tsevelvaanchigdorji
* Vesna A. Wallace
* Mergen Gegeen's Didactic Poetry
* Uranchimeg Ujeed
* Part IV: Buddhist Didactic Poetry
* Buddhist Literature of Danzan Ravjaa
* Simon Wickham-Smith
* Part V: Buddhist Ritual Texts
* Khalkha Zaya Pandita's Smoke Offering Rituals to the Khangai Mountain
Range
* Krisztina Teleki
* Ritual Texts of Mergeen Gegeen
* Uranchimeg Ujeed
* Ritual Texts of Prosperity and Purification
* Vesna A. Wallace
* Ritual Texts Dedicated to the White Old Man with Examples from the
Classical Mongolian and Oirat (Clear Script) Textual Corpora
* Birtalan Ágnes
* Incense Offering to the Lord Chinggis Khan
* Matthew W. King
* Caqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's Offering Ritual to the Fire Goddess
* Batsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg Ushkhbayar
* Three Ritual Prayers by Ondor Gegeen Zanabazar
* Zsuzsa Mayer
* Part VI: Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries
* The Legend of Mother Tara the Green
* Brian Baumann
* Oral Historical Narratives from the Early Twentieth Century
* Adrienne Gecse
* Part VII: Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth-Century Writings
* Zava Damdin's "A 1931 Survey of Mongolian Monastic Colleges"
* Matthew W. King
* Agwan Dorjiev's Questions about the Past and Future of Mongolian
Buddhism
* Matthew W. King
* The Internal Regulations of Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar
* Uranchimeg Tsultemin
* Agvaanyam's "The Origin of Human Beings and the Holy Dharma Kings and
Ministers in Mongol Lands," from The History of the Dharma, The Lamp
of Scriptures and Reasoning
* Matthew W. King
* Literary Treatments of Buddhism in the Period of Transition
* Simon Wickham-Smith
* Part VIII: Contemporary Buddhist Writings
* Contemporary Buddhist Poetry and Fiction
* Simon Wickham-Smith
* Index