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Sources of Mongolian Buddhism
Title
Sources of Mongolian Buddhism / edited by Vesna A. Wallace.
ISBN
9780190900694
0190900695
9780190900700
9780190900717
9780190900724
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
xxiii, 523 pages ; 25 cm
Notes
In English, translated from original Tibetan and Mongolian.
Summary
"This volume consists of twenty-four chapters containing a collection of selected original sources of Mongolian Buddhism, composed either in Tibetan or Mongolian language. This collection brings new material that has not yet been available in any of European languages. Translated sources serve as a lens through which to examine Mongolian Buddhism in its variety of literary genres and styles and religious and cultural ideas and practices. Each chapter includes a translation of a shorter text or a selected section of a longer text, and each contributor also provides the introduction to a translated text or texts, which contextualizes text, references and endnotes. The volume contains twenty-four chapters classified into eight sections: The Early Seventeenth Century Texts; Autobiography and Biography; Buddhist Teachings; Buddhist Didactic Poetry; Buddhist Ritual Texts; Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth Century Writings; Contemporary Buddhist Writings. stone inscription, doctrinal concepts, ornament for the mind, trilogy, didactic poetry, Buddhist literature, smoke offering, ritual texts, legend, internal regulations"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The stone inscription of Covtu Taiji / Brian Bauman
Siregetü Güüsi Corji's treatise containing the complete meanings of the most important [doctrinal concepts] to be used / Agata Bareja-Starzynska
The autobiography of the first Khalkha Zaya pandita Lobsang Trinley / Sangseraima Ujeed
Zava Damdin's beautifying ornament for the mind of the faithfull: a priase-biography of my root lama Vajradhara, he who possesses the three types of kindness, the great Madapandita endowed with excellent discipline and learning named "Sanjaa" / Matthew W. King
A trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb Tendar / ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir
Miscellaneous writings of Caqar Gebsi Luvsancültem / Matthew W. King
Teachings of the pious fat pandita Tsevelvaanchigdorji / Vesna A. Wallace
Didactic poetry of Mergen Gegeen / Uranchimeg Ujeed
Didactic poetry of Danzanravjaa / Simon Wickham-Smith
Khalkha Zaya pandita's smoke offering rituals to the Khangai mountain range / Krisztina Teleki
Ritual texts of Mergeen Gegeen / Uranchimeg Ujeed
Ritual texts of prosperity and purification / Vesna A. Wallace
Ritual texts dedicated to the white old man with examples from the classical Mongolian and oirat (clear script) textual corpora / Birtalan Ágnes
Incense offering to the Lord Chinggis Khan / Matthew W. King
Caqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's offering ritual to the fire goddess / Batsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg Ushkhbayar
Three ritual prayers by Ondor Gegeen Zanabazar / Zsuzsa Mayer
The legend of Mother Tara the Green / Brian Baumann
Oral historical narratives from the early twentieth century / Adrienne Gecse
Zava Damdin's "A 1931 survey of Mongolian monastic colleges" / Matthew W. King
Agwan Dorjiev's questions about the past and future of Mongolian Buddhism / Matthew W. King
The internal regulations of Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar / Uranchimeg Tsultemin
Agvaanyam: "The origin of human beings and the holy dharma kings and ministers in Mongol lands", from the history of the dharma, the lamp of scriptures and reasoning / Matthew W. King
Literary treatments of Buddhism in the period of transition / Simon Wickham-Smith
Contemporary Buddhist poetry and fiction / Simon Wickham-Smith.
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