Eastern Religions

ISBN: 9783515073479
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 11.13
The apocryphal literature of the old school of Tibetan Buddhism is collected, for the most part, in the Rin-chen gter-mdzod . This catalog continues the publication and description of texts from this collection. The texts presented here deal wi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515092333
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 13.2
This volume publishes and describes Uyghur (Old Turkic) block prints from the Berlin Turfan collection, which form an important corpus of Central Asian Buddhist literature of the 13th and 14th centuries. They fall into six categories: apocrypha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515073486
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)
Volume: 11.14
Mit dieser Arbeit wird die fuenfbändige Beschreibung des Rin-chen gter-mdzod, der umfangreichsten Werksammlung tibetischer apokrypher Schriften (gter-ma), abgeschlossen. Sie eröffnet auch dem nicht-tibetisch sprechenden Interessenten erstmals e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782600012287
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: Hautes Etudes Orientales - Extrême Orient
Volume: 45/9
As a universal religion, Buddhism offers a defining core doctrine while assuming distinctive conceptual and cultural coverings, thus encompassing divergent matters and notions. Frédéric Girard's pragmatic nomenclature and vocabulary, based on ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700161097
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: SANSKRIT TEXTS FROM THE TIBETAN AUTONOMOUS REGION
Volume: 4
The Pancaskandhaka consists of a list of all factors of reality with their definitions and, in line with Asagga's Abhidharmasamuccaya , a succinct summary of Buddhist philosophical scholasticism as presented in the Yogacara-Vijñanavada tradit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195154146
Published by : Oxford University Press
This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "Tibetanized" region of northern Nepal. While Te's people are nominally Buddhist, and engage the services of resident Tibetan Tantric priests for a range of rituals, they are also ex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700161004
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens
Volume: 63
The exact circumstances of the emergence of what are now known as the rNying ma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism remain among the least clearly defined areas of Tibetan history for modern scholarship. What has made the early history of rNying ma ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700160991
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens
Volume: 62
Often designated as Yoga-ca-ra, Vijña-nava-da, or Yoga-ca-ra-Vijña-nava-da, the second comprehensive branch of philosophical development within Indian Maha-ya-na Buddhism generated a large textual corpus of considerable conceptual heterogeneit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700160571
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 774
This book is concerned with the complex and indeed difficult question of the relationship between Buddhism and Brahmanism/Hinduism (Vedism, Shivaism, Vishnuism, etc.) in India, and between Buddhism and local religious cults in Tibet and certai... .... Learn More