Research Catalog

Title

Among Tibetan texts : history and literature of the Himalayan Plateau / E. Gene Smith ; edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer ; foreword by Jeffrey Hopkins.

Author

Smith, E. Gene (Ellis Gene), 1936-

Publication

Boston, MA : Wisdom Publications, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Schaeffer, Kurtis R.

Description

xiii, 384 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

Uniform Title

Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.

Subject

• Buddhism > Tibet Autonomous Region > Doctrines
• Buddhism > Tibet Autonomous Region > History > 20th century
• Buddhist literature, Tibetan > History and criticism
• Buddhist sects > Tibet Autonomous Region

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Jeffrey Hopkins -- Preface / E. Gene Smith -- Introduction / Kurtis R. Schaeffer -- I. The Rnying ma School -- 1. The Autobiography of the Rnying ma pa Visionary Mkhan po Ngag dbang dpal bzang -- 2. Klong chen Rab 'byams pa and His Works -- II. The Bka' brgyud Schools -- 3. Golden Rosaries of the Bka' brgyud Schools -- 4. The Shangs pa Bka' brgyud Tradition -- 5. The Life of Gtsang smyon Heruka -- 6. Padma dkar po and His History of Buddhism -- 7. The Diaries of Si tu Pan chen -- III. The Sa skya School -- 8. The Early History of the 'Khon Family and the Sa skya School -- 9. Glo bo Mkhan chen and Buddhist Logic in Tibet -- IV. The Dge lugs School -- 10. The Autobiography of the First Pan chen Lama -- 11. The Life of Lcang skya Rol pa'i rdo rje -- 12. Philosophical, Biographical, and Historical Works of Thu'u bkwan Blo bzang chos kyi nyi ma -- 13. The Life of Ye shes rgyal mtshan, Preceptor of the Eighth Dalai Lama -- V. Literary Arts and Encyclopedias -- 14. Buddhist Literary and Practical Arts According to Bo dong Pan chen Phyogs las rnam rgyal -- 15. A Tibetan Encyclopedia from the Fifteenth Century -- VI. The Nonsectarian Movement -- 16. Mi pham and the Philosophical Controversies of the Nineteenth Century -- 17. 'Jam mgon Kong sprul and the Nonsectarian Movement -- I. Tibetan Works -- II. Secondary Works -- III. The Works of E. Gene Smith.

ISBN

0861711793

LCCN

^^2001025869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library