ISBN:
0195131223
,
9780195131222
,
9780195131222
,
0195131223
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 316 S.
,
Ill.
,
25 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Cabezón, José Ignacio The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation and Memory. Matthew T. Kapstein 2002
Keywords:
Buddhism History
;
Buddhism
;
Buddhism History
;
Buddhism China
;
Tibet
;
Tibetischer Buddhismus
;
Geschichte 650-1400
Description / Table of Contents:
A brief chronology of Tibetan Buddhism.Introduction: Death, literacy, and Tibet's Buddhist elite. -- 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. -- Plague, power, and reason: the royal conversion to Buddhism reconsidered. -- 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. -- 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Literaturverz. S. [275] - 303. Index
Note:
Includes index. - Bibliography
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