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Title

Sources of Mongolian Buddhism / edited by Vesna A. Wallace.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

Wallace, Vesna A.

Description

xxiii, 523 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This volume consists of twenty-four chapters containing a collection of selected original sources of Mongolian Buddhism, composed either in Tibetan or Mongolian language. This collection brings new material that has not yet been available in any of European languages. Translated sources serve as a lens through which to examine Mongolian Buddhism in its variety of literary genres and styles and religious and cultural ideas and practices. Each chapter includes a translation of a shorter text or a selected section of a longer text, and each contributor also provides the introduction to a translated text or texts, which contextualizes text, references and endnotes. The volume contains twenty-four chapters classified into eight sections: The Early Seventeenth Century Texts; Autobiography and Biography; Buddhist Teachings; Buddhist Didactic Poetry; Buddhist Ritual Texts; Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth Century Writings; Contemporary Buddhist Writings. stone inscription, doctrinal concepts, ornament for the mind, trilogy, didactic poetry, Buddhist literature, smoke offering, ritual texts, legend, internal regulations"--

Subject

• Buddhism > Mongolia > History > Sources
• Buddhism > Mongolia > Doctrines > History
• Buddhism
• Buddhism > Doctrines
• Mongolia

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English, translated from original Tibetan and Mongolian.

Contents

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 -- The autobiography of the first Khalkha Zaya pandita Lobsang Trinley / Sangseraima Ujeed -- Zava Damdin's beautifying ornament for the mind of the faithfull: a priase-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 -- 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 -- Didactic poetry of Mergen Gegeen / Uranchimeg Ujeed -- Didactic poetry of Danzanravjaa / Simon Wickham-Smith -- 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 -- The legend of Mother Tara the Green / Brian Baumann -- Oral historical narratives from the early twentieth century / Adrienne Gecse -- 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: "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 -- Contemporary Buddhist poetry and fiction / Simon Wickham-Smith.

Call Number

JFE 21-46

ISBN

• 9780190900694
• 0190900695
• 9780190900700 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190900717 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190900724 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019017452

OCLC

1099540170

Title

Sources of Mongolian Buddhism / edited by Vesna A. Wallace.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

In English, translated from original Tibetan and Mongolian.

Added Author

Wallace, Vesna A., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-46