Despite Mongolia's centrality to East Asian history and culture, Mongols themselves have often been seen as passive subjects on the edge of the Qing formation or as obedient followers of so-called "Tibetan Buddhism," peripheral to major literary, religious, and political developments. But in fact Mongolian Buddhists produced multi-lingual and genre-bending scholastic and ritual works that profoundly shaped historical consciousness, community identification, religious knowledge, and practices in Mongolian lands and beyond. In Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, a team of leading Mongolian scholars and authors have compiled a collection of original Mongolian Buddhist works--including ritual texts, poetic prayers and eulogies, legends, inscriptions, and poems--for the first time in any European language.
Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, Vesna A. Wallace (editor), Oxford University Press, Hardcover, 544 pp, $160.00
Vesna A. Wallace (editor) is Professor of South Asian Religions and Inner Asian Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has authored and translated four books on Indian Buddhism. Her most recent book is an edited volume on Mongolian Buddhism titled Buddhism in Mongolian Culture, History, and Society.
Contributors:
Agata Bareja-Starzynska Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Turkish Studies and Inner Asian Peoples, University of Warsaw
Usukhbayar Batchimeg Researcher, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
Norov Batsaikhan Former Lecturer, Health Sciences, University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar
Brian Baumann Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
Agnes Birtalan Chair of the Department of Inner Asian Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Erdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir PhD Candidate, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Adrien Gesce Program Coordinator, The Jane Goodall Institute
Matthew W. King Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside
Zsuzsa Majer Research Fellow, Department of Mongolian and Inner-Asian Studies at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Simon Wickham Smith Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University
Krisztina Teleki Research Fellow, Department of Mongol and Inner Asian Studies at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Uranchimeg Tsultemin Co-Chair of the Mongolia Initiative at the Institute of Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Executive Director of the Mongolia Foundation in Berkeley
Sangseraima Ujeed Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Uranchimeg Birjigin Ujeed Researcher, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge
Vesna A. Wallace Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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