Research Catalog

Title

Rolf Stein's Tibetica antiqua : with additional materials / by Rolf A. Stein ; translated and edited by Arthur P. McKeown.

Author

Stein, R. A. (Rolf Alfred), 1911-1999.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

McKeown, Arthur P.

Description

xxix, 384 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 24

Uniform Title

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 24.

Subject

• Dunhuang-Handschriften
• Indigenous peoples > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > Religion
• Buddhism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History
• Buddhism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History > Sources
• Taoism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History
• Buddhist literature > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History and criticism
• Tibetan language > Texts
• Antiquities
• Buddhism
• Buddhist literature
• Civilization
• Indigenous peoples > Religion
• Religion
• Taoism
• Tibetan language
• Bon-Religion
• Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Civilization
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Civilization > Sources
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Religion
• Dunhuang Caves (China) > Antiquities
• China > Dunhuang Caves
• China > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Tibet

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.
• Sources.
• Texts.

Note

• Translation of articles which originally appeared in French in the journal Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient from 1983 to 1992, together with Stein's contributions to the Annuaire de college de France from 1967 to 1970.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-354) and indexes.

Contents

Tibetica antiqua I. The two vocabularies of Indo-Tibetan and Sino-Tibetan translations in the Dunhuang manuscripts -- Tibetica antiqua II. The use of metaphors for honorific distinctions in the epoch of the Tibetan kings -- Additional note to Tibetica antiqua I -- Tibetica antiqua III. Apropos of the word Gtsug lag and the indigenous religion -- The dating -- Characteristics of the ancient religion -- The sense of Gtsug and gtsug lag -- Review of the sources -- Appendix. The etymology of gtsug lag -- Recapitulation -- Tibetica antiqua IV. The tradition relative to the debut of Buddhism in Tibet -- The religious kings and the royal laws -- The sūtra fallen from the sky -- Recapitulation -- Tibetica antiqua V. The indigenous religion and the Bon po in Dunhuang manuscripts -- Theories -- The ancient religion -- Bon pos and Bon -- Theories on the antecedents of late Bon -- The Dunhuang manuscripts and the later tradition -- Dunhuang documents -- Bon po in the texts translated from Chinese and bon po communities -- Translations from Chinese -- Bon po communities -- Bon po and gshen, their differences and their functions -- Gshen rab mi bo -- Other people -- Names and their epithets -- Themes -- Funerary ritual -- Divinities -- The word Bon alone -- Linguistic and stylistic traits -- Tibetica antiqua VI. Confucian maxims in two Dunhuang manuscripts -- Annuaire 1967 -- Aspects of the sworn faith in China -- The Bonpo cosmogonies in Tibet and near the Mosso -- Annuaire 1968 -- Daoist texts relative to the transmission of revealed books -- The Bonpo accounts on the beginnings of culture -- Annuaire 1969 -- Bonpo accounts on the first men -- Some aspects of the Daoist parishes -- Annuaire 1970 -- Popular cults in organized Daoism -- Elements constitutive of the Bonpo literature -- Bibliography of Rolf A. Stein.

ISBN

• 9789004183384
• 9004183388

LCCN

2009053997

OCLC

• ocn498369707
• 498369707
• SCSB-1572604

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library