Scribes, Texts, and Rituals in Early Tibet and Dunhuang
Proceedings of the Third Old Tibetan Studies Panel held at the Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010
Edited by Brandon Dotson Edited by Kazushi Iwao Edited by Tsuguhito Takeuchi
Hardback (Published)
(March 2013)
ISBN: 9783895009389
6.69 x 9.45 inches
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This volume presents new findings and original research concerning early Tibet and the social and cultural history of the Tibetan Empire (c. 600-850 CE). In five chapters, leading scholars approach the problem of textual production in interrelated and complementary ways.
This volume presents new findings and original research concerning early Tibet and the social and cultural history of the Tibetan Empire (c. 600-850 CE). In five chapters, leading scholars approach the problem of textual production in interrelated and complementary ways. These include a chapter on the social history of scribal practice in Dunhuang, a codicological study of royally commissioned sutras, a palaeographical essay at a typology of early Tibetan writing, a study of hunting topoi in narrative and ritual texts, and a text-critical approach to an early Bon tantra. Demonstrating the methodological breadth of the field of early Tibetan studies, the remaining contributions range from an archeological study of pre-historic ritual artefacts and an art-historical study of illuminated tomb panels to two chapters on Tibetan imperial administration and a chapter on the cosmopolitan origins of materia medica used in the Silk Road entrepot of Dunhuang. The work will be of interest to all those interested in the language, history, and culture of early Tibet. Its essays are appropriate for those ranging from undergraduates to professional scholars.
- Edited by Brandon Dotson
- Edited by Kazushi Iwao
- Edited by Tsuguhito Takeuchi
„The highlight of this [...] volume is [...] the article by Brandon Dotson, by now well established as a leading voice among the new generation of Old Tibetan scholars. His article here, ’The Princess and the Yak: the Hunt as a Narrative Trope, and Historical Reality in Early Tibet’, deserves to be widely read. [...] Dotson’s analysis looks particularly at the theme of the wild-yak hunt within the narrative, and explores it not just as a literary trope, but also as a reflection of the historic importance of the imperial ’enlcosure hunt’ (lings) to Tibetan court life. The article showcases Dotson’s artful combination of literary, philological, archaeological and historical methodologies to illuminate the content embedded in the old Tibetan manuscript corpus. [...] Amy Heller’s article on the painted coffin panels recently excavated in Quinghai notably expands the archaeological and art-historical evidence for the early Tibetan period, depicting a hunt among other things. The paintings are reproduced in high-quality colour photographic plates at the back of the volume.“<br/><br/><br/><br/>Von: Georg FitzHerbert<br/><br/>In: European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, Volume 43 (2016), S. 109-114.
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Other Titles in this Series
Red mda’ ba. Buddhist Yogi-Scholar of the Fourteenth Century
The Forgotten Reviver of Madhyamaka Philosophy in Tibet
Die Statue und der Tempel des Arya Va-ti bzang-po
Ein Beitrag zu Geschichte und Geographie des tibetischen Buddhismus
Kategorien der Wirklichkeit im frühen Yogacara
Der Fünf-vastu-Abschnitt in der Viniscayasamgrahani der Yogacarabhumi
Das tibetische Fürstentum La stod lHo (um 1265 bis 1642)
Die Geschichte der Herrschaftsbildung nebst einer Edition der Chronik Shel dkar chos ‘byung
Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism
A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries
Dating Tibetan Art
Essays on the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Chronology from the Lempertz Symposium, Cologne
Shakya-mchog-ldan, Mahapandita des Klosters gSer-mdog-can
Leben und Werk nach den tibetischen Quellen
The Illuminating Mirror
Tibetan Studies in Honour of Per K. Sørensen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Die Hagiographie des La phyi ba Nam mkha’ rgyal mtshan (1372 bis 1437)
Eine Studie über das Leben eines tibetischen Heiligen
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