Research Catalog

Title

The illuminating mirror : Tibetan studies in honour of Per K. Sørensen on the occasion of his 65th birthday / edited by Olaf Czaja and Guntram Hazod.

Publication

Wiesbaden : Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Sørensen, Per K.
• Czaja, Olaf
• Hazod, Guntram

Description

xxxviii, 602 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 portrait; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions to Tibetan studies ; volume 12

Uniform Title

Contributions to Tibetan studies ; v. 12.

Alternative Title

Tibetan studies in honour of Per K. Soerensen on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Subject

• Sørensen, Per K. > Interviews
• Tibetan literature > History and criticism
• Buddhism > Tibet Autonomous Region > History > Sources
• Manuscripts, Tibetan > History
• Tibetans > Folklore
• Tibetologists > Denmark > Interviews
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > History
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Politics and government
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Religion

Note

• Festschrift.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Includes bibliography of Per K. Soerensen.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• May the “Original” Lam rim chen mo please stand up!: a note on its indigenous textual criticism / Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp. -- “The boatman is more beautiful than a god”: poetising and singing on the rivers in central and southern Tibet / Diana Lange. -- Considerations on the Gtsug lag khang in the Dpal ’khor chos sde of Rgyal rtse / Erberto F. Lo Bue. -- The Pith Instructions on the Mahāyāna Uttaratantra (Theg chen rgyud bla’ i gdams pa) – A missing link in the meditation tradition of the Maitreya works / Klaus-Dieter Mathes. -- The importance of water in Tibet and its influence on Sa dpyad / Petra Maurer. -- ‘We swear our grandparents were there!’ (or, what can the sex pistols can tell us about Padmasambhava?): the making of myth in 10th century Tibet and 20th century England / Robert Mayer. --^
• An introduction to the ‘testimony’ of the Barfung (’Bar spungs) family: an important source for the study of Sikkim’s social and political history / Saul Mullard. -- The demoness’s right (or left) knee (or ankle): a pilgrim’s account of Traduntse temple from 1898 / Charles Ramble. -- “16 Human Norms” (mi chos bcu drug) – Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan / Ulrike Roesler. -- Bibliography and cultural history: remarks on the Bka’ gdams glegs bam / Marta Sernesi. -- Rescuing history from tantric sex: Tibetan tantric buddhism at the Mongol court of the Great Khans / Shen Weirong. -- Tibetan interpretations of authenticity: the four means of authentication (tshad ma bzhi) belonging to the mantra vehicle in the Sa skya and ’Bri gung traditions / Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. -- Peripheral elites of the eastern Himalayas: The ‘Maternal Uncle Lord of Ber mkhar’ of Tawang / Lobsang Tenpa. --^
• Bka’ gdams pa religious politics in Dbus: the one hundred years after A ti sha’s death / Roberto Vitali. -- Biblioclasm/Libricide in the history of Tibetan Buddhism / Dorji Wangchuk. -- A preliminary survey of the songs of Zhang Tshal pa / Carl S. Yamamoto.

ISBN

9783954901371

OCLC

937716652

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library