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Histories of Tibet : essays in honor of Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp /

"As part of Leonard van der Kuijp's research in Tibetan history, as he patiently and expertly revealed treasures of the Tibetan intellectual tradition in fourteenth-century Tsang, or seventeenth-century Lhasa, or eighteenth-century Amdo, he developed an international community of colleague...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schaeffer, Kurtis R. (Editor), Liang, Jue (Editor), McGrath, William A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Wisdom Publications, [2023]
Subjects:
Tibet Region > Civilization.
Tibet Region > History.
Buddhism > Tibet Region > History.
Tibet Region > Historiography.
Tibetans > Intellectual life.
RELIGION / Buddhism / History.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Bibliography of Leonard van der Kuijp's Published Work / Kurtis R. Schaeffer
  • A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Bibliography
  • Cultural History: On Gtsug-lag khang, "Monastery, Vihāra" / Christopher I. Beckwith
  • Andrade's Mission to Tsaparang, Western Tibet, and the Mystery of the Aftermath / Hubert Decleer
  • The Fourth Khamtrül Tendzin Chökyi Nyima (1730-79) and Excerpts from His Diaries / Franz-Karl Ehrhard
  • Portraying the Lineage Masters of the Path with Its Fruit: Lowo Khenchen's Description of Ngorchen's Commission / Jörg Heimbel and David P. Jackson
  • Lost
  • and Added
  • in Translation between India and Tibet: Theories about Drama in Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology / Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy
  • Origin of the r- Allomorph of the Tibetan Causatives / Nathan W. Hill
  • Refractions of Lotus Light: The Early Elaboration and Delimitation of Padmasambhava's Eight Names / Daniel A. Hirshberg
  • The Earliest Example of Printing in the Tibetan Script: Remarks on a Dhāraṇī Amulet from Dunhuang / Matthew T. Kapstein
  • Pakpa's Epistolary Manual / Christina Kilby
  • Nature and Emotion in Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Lyric Poetry / Kurtis R. Schaeffer
  • The Jonangpa Scholar Künga Drölchok's Oeuvre, Its Xylography Project, and the Analects of Zhentong / Michael R. Sheehy
  • Insects Give Advice to the Scholar and Siddha Kalden Gyatso (1607-77) / Victoria Sujata
  • No Stone Unturned: Un-Disciplining Tibetan Buddhist Studies / Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan
  • The Great One: On the Life and Oeuvre of Tibet's Last Great Statue-Maker, Penba Dorjé / Cameron David Warner
  • Tibet Viewed from Kashmir: Some Notes on the Relationship of Kashmir with Ladakh and Other Parts of Tibet / Michael Witzel
  • Intellectual History: Chomden Reldri on Dharmakīrti's Examination of Relations / Allison Aitken
  • Maintaining Identification with a Buddha: Divine Identity or Simply False? / Yael Bentor
  • Rumblings of Thunder: Notes on the Identity and Intellectual Milieu of the Nyingma School Critic Peldzin / James Gentry
  • "Thunderbolt Blaze" or "Armless Hero"? On the Authorship of the Essence of Debate / Pascale Hugon
  • Eclipsing the Great Paṇḍita: Śākyaśrībhadra in the Later Biographies of Jetsün Drakpa Gyeltsen / Rory Lindsay
  • Flower Garland: The Transmission of the Vinayakārikā Mālākāra in Tibet / Cuilan Liu
  • Subhāṣākīrti's Sarvabhāṣāpravartana and Its Relevance to the Smra sgo / Zhouyang Ma
  • Some Interesting Passages from the Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis and Its Commentary / Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell
  • Notes on the Tibetan Lexeme lo rgyus: Other Than "History" / Sun Penghao
  • Tibetan Expertise on Sanskrit Grammar (6): Dar Lotsāwa Ngawang Püntsok Lhündrup on Pāṇini / Pieter C. Verhagen
  • Institutional History: All in the Dudjom Family: Overlapping Modes of Authority and Transmission in the Golok Treasure Scene / Holly Gayley
  • Conflicting Views on Kingship between the Tibetan Buddhist World and the Qing Dynasty: The Fifth Dalai Lama's Visit to Beijing / Ishihama Yumiko
  • Newar Merchants in Tibet: Observations on Frontiers of Trade and Buddhist Culture / Todd Lewis
  • A Discourse on Kingship from the Eighth Karmapa / Ian MacCormack
  • Tibetan Medicine under the Mongols: The Emergence of Medical Houses and Official Physicians in Tibet / William A. McGrath
  • Some Remarks on the Genealogy of the Sakya (Sa skya gdung rabs) by Taktsang Lotsāwa (Stag tshang lo tsā ba, 1405-77) / Shoko Mekata
  • Who Owned the Land in Tibet? / Peter Schwieger
  • The Institution of the Qinghai Amban / Gray Tuttle
  • Poppy Cultivation, the Opium Trade, and Its Social Harm in Tibetan Regions of Sichuan Province during the Early Twentieth Century / Yudru Tsomu
  • Index
  • About the Contributors
  • Tabula Gratulatoria.