Tibet, Past & Present
Author: Sir Charles Alfred Bell
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sir Charles Alfred Bell
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Janet Gyatso
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780231130981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of historical, literary, ethographical essays about the history - Women in traditional Tibet - and present situation of women in Tibet - Modern Tibetan Women, offering data and reflection on certain topics, like the lives of individual women. Based on texts, anthropological data, literature, newspaper articles, fieldwork and oral history.
Author: John Charles Alfred Bell
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Bell
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9788120810488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book deals with Tibetan history from earliest times, but especially with the aims and movements of the period witnessed by the author. Anecdotes, conversations with leading Tibetans, and quotations from poetry and proverbs illustrate the Tibetan point of view. Sir Charles Bell gives an inside view of the Tibetans; he served for eighteen years on the Indo-Tibetan frontier, spoke and wrote the Tibetan language, and was brought into close touch with all classes from the reigning Dalai Lama downwards.Recent developments in Tibet have attracted world wide attention and through this Indian edition, Sir Charles Bell`s classic study will perhaps be more eagerly read now than ever before.
Author: Sir Charles Alfred Bell
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bryan J. Cuevas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-12-08
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780195306521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.