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Contents: Soundings in TIBETAN Civilization |
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Preface by E. Gene Smith |
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Editor's Introduction |
xv |
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Contributors |
xxiii |
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Part One: The Tibetan Language |
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Roland Bielmeier |
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A Survey of the Development of Western and Southwestern Tibetan Dialects |
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Zhang Liansheng |
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The Phonetic Structure of ABCB Type Words in Modern Lhasa Tibetan |
20 |
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Part Two: Fine Arts, Literature, and Oral Traditions |
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Mireille Helffer |
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A Typology of the Tibetan Bell |
37 |
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Ricardo O. Canzio |
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Aspects of Ceremonial Behavior in Bon-po Monastic Life |
42 |
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Marceline de Montmollin |
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The Bhutanese Collection in Neuchatel |
54 |
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Anne Chayet |
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The Jehol Temples and their Tibetan Models |
65 |
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Braham Norwick |
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The First Tsha-tsha Published in Europe |
73 |
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Wang Yao |
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Tibetan Operatic Themes |
86 |
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Nawang Tsering Shakspo |
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Ladakhi Folk Songs |
97 |
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Chime Wongmo |
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Rituals of Bhutanese House Construction |
107 |
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Barbara Nimri Aziz |
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On Translating Oral Traditions: Ceremonial Wedding Poetry from Dingri |
115 |
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Part Three: Historical Studies |
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Tsuguhito Takeuchi |
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A Passage from the Shih Chi in the Old Tibetan Chronicle |
135 |
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Helga Uebach |
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An 8th Century List of Thousand-Districts in Ne'u Pandita's History |
147 |
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Lozang Jamspal |
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The Three Provinces of Mna'-ris: Traditional Accounts of Ancient Western Tibet |
152 |
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Nawang Tsering |
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A Survey of the Spread of Buddhadharma in Ladakh |
157 |
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Janos Szerb |
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Glosses on the Oeuvre of Bla-ma 'Phags-pa: III. The "Patron-Patronized" Relationship |
165 |
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Turrell V. Wylie |
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Biographical Notes on Phyag-na rdo-rje (1239-1267) (abstract) |
174 |
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Dawa Norbu |
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An Analysis of Sino-Tibetan Relationships, 1245-1911: Imperial Power, Non-coercive Regime and Military Dependency |
176 |
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Tashi Tsering |
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Nag-ron mgon-po rnam-rgyal: A 19th Century Warrior |
196 |
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Michael C. van Walt |
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Whose Game? Records of the India Office Concerning Events Leading up to the Simla Conference |
215 |
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Part Four: Religious Life and Thought |
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Ugen Gombo |
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Belief in Karma and its Social Ramifications in Samsara |
233 |
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Martin Brauen-Dolma |
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Millenarianism in Tibetan Religion |
245 |
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Amy Heller |
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An Early Tibetan Ritual: Rkyal 'bud |
257 |
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Jampa L. Panglung |
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On the Origin of the Tsha-gsur Ceremony |
268 |
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Samten G. Karmay |
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The Rdzogs-chen in its Earliest Text: A Manuscript from Tun-huang |
272 |
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Eva K. Dargyay |
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A Rnin-ma Text: the Kun byed rgyal po'i mdo |
283 |
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Alex Wayman |
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The Tibetan Translation of the Manjusri-nama-samgiti (abstract) |
294 |
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Judith Hanson and Mervin V. Hanson |
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The Meditating Buddha |
296 |
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Janice D. Willis |
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On the Nature of Rnam-thar: Early Dge-lugs-pa Siddha Biographies |
304 |
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Janet Gyatso |
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The Development of the Good Tradition |
320 |
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David Ross Komito |
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Insight and Liberation in Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness |
342 |
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Matthew Kapstein |
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Religious Syncretism in 13th century Tibet: The Limitless Ocean Cycle |
358 |
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Robert A.F. Thurman |
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Tson-kha-pa's Integration of Sutra and Tantra |
372 |
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Geoffrey Samuel |
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Early Buddhism in Tibet: Some Anthropological Perspectives |
383 |