Format:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047429289
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan Studies Library v.22
Content:
This book analyzes the religious-political culture of the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842) and the establishment of Buddhism, based on early sources. It shows how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations for Frequently-Cited Works -- Introduction -- Prologue on Old Tibetan -- Chapter One Religion and politics in Tibet's imperial government, and the place of Buddhism therein -- Politics and publication -- Buddhism and society -- Oaths and oathing -- Anti-Buddhist attitudes -- Court religion -- The mythology of rule -- The noble clans -- Tibet's military culture and the comitatus -- The Tibetan court in context -- Conclusions -- Methodological observations -- Endnotes -- Chapter Two Sku, bla, lha, etc.: The language and phraseology of early Tibetan politics and religion -- Language, ethnicity, and the Sino-Tibetan 'Theory' -- Tibet's honorific language -- sku -- sku bla -- bla, bla ma -- lha -- A brief excursus on the concepts lha chos and myi chos -- Conclusions -- Methodological observations -- Endnotes -- Chapter Three Rituals in the Imperium and later: Continuity in the rituals of Tibetan Buddhism -- rim gro, sku rim -- Oathing rites, cup rites -- Rites dealing with the founding of Bsam-yas -- Confession rites -- The Bon tradition -- Conclusions -- Methodological observations -- Endnotes -- Chapter Four The intersection of religion and politics -- Why Avalokitesvara? -- Gtsug lag -- A 'mountain cult' in the Imperium, and after? -- Cakravartins in Tibet -- Btsan po and Rgyal po -- Nongs -- Conclusions -- Methodological observations -- Endnotes -- Appendix One The religio-political significance of gold -- Appendix Two A brief excursus on Bon -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004175846
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004175846
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
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