Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
2010
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Brills Tibetan Studies Library has established itself as one of the foremost academic book series in the fast-growing field of Tibetan Studies. Featuring both monographs and rigorously edited collected volumes, it covers all aspects of Tibetan culture well into modernity, doing justice to the full spectrum of humanities disciplines. In the course of its existence, strictly peer-reviewed Brills Tibetan Studies Library has brought together a considerable number of works by renowned scholars from all parts of the world, thus offering a wide overview of more than a decade of first-rate scholarship on a culture with an ever-increasing international appeal. This series includes three subseries each devoted to special occasions or themes: Proceedings of the ninth Seminar of the IATS in 2000 (Leiden) Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS in 2003 (Oxford) Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region
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This book convincingly reassesses the role of political institutions in the introduction of Buddhism under the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842), showing how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Taking original sources as a point of departure, the author persuasively argues that later sources hitherto used for the history of early Tibetan Buddhism in fact project later ideas backward, thus distorting our view of its enculturation. Following the pattern of Buddhisms spread elsewhere in Asia, the early Tibetan imperial court realized how useful normative Buddhist concepts were. This work clearly shows that, while some beliefs and practices per se changed after the Tibetan Empire, the model of socio-political-religious leadership developed in that earlier period survived its demise and still constitutes a significant element in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist religious culture.
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Modern Ladakh
July 2008 ISBn 978 90 04 16713 1 Hardback (x, 314 pp.) List price EUR 103.- / US$ 147. Brills Tibetan Studies Library, 20
Tibetan Transitions
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility, Family Planning, and Demographic Change
Geoff Childs
Tibetan Transitions uses the dual lenses of anthropology and demography to analyze population regulating mechanisms in traditional Tibetan societies, and to document recent transitions from high to low fertility throughout the Tibetan world. Using the authors case studies on historical Tibet, the Tibet Autonomous Region, the highlands of nepal, and Tibetan exile communities in South Asia, this book provides a theoretical perspective on demographic processes by linking fertility transitions with family systems, economic strategies, gender equity, and family planning ideologies. Special attention is devoted to how institutions (governmental and religious) and the agency of individuals shape reproductive outcomes in both historical and contemporary Tibetan societies, and how demographic data has been interpreted and deployed in recent political debates.
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Enlightened Rainbows
Jean-Luc Achard
May 2008 ISBn 978 90 04 16823 7 Hardback (xxxii, 504 pp.) List price EUR 134.- / US$ 191. Brills Tibetan Studies Library, 18
Shardza Tashi Gyeltsen (1859-1934) is one of the most important luminaries of the Bon tradition of Tibet and certainly the most striking recent master of the teachings of the Great Perfection. Throughout his life, he applied the principles of the Great Perfection in numerous isolated retreats and perfected both spiritual realization and scholarly erudition. His works have nowadays become immensely important references for the modern Bon tradition, even if, for some lineage holders of this Tibetan school, he is best associated with the movement known as new Bon. This widely diffused view, however, is wrong as is clearly shown by the analysis of Shardza Rinpoches Collected Works in the present volume.
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Ladakhi Histories
Local and Regional Perspectives
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Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibet
Calling Down the Gods
John Vincent Bellezza
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Anton Lustig
Dr. Anton Lustigs Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa is a thorough and unique documentation of this main language of the Jingpo minority in southwest China. Volume I clarifies the precise meanings of numerous grammatical and lexical categories, in a holistic and all-encompassing but also vivid way, offering real insight into the conceptual universe of this typologically highly interesting tonal language, with suprasegmental traits. Volume II contains a dictionary, stories and songs. This work is also a historical monument for and tribute to this endangered language. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).
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A Grammar of Tshangla
Erik E. Andvik
A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functionaltypological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this Grammar of Tshangla an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.
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A Grammar of Anong
September 2009 ISBn 978 90 04 17686 7 Hardback (276 pp.) List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154. Brills Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 5/9
A Grammar of Dhimal
John T. King
The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathered in the village of hiybr, the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. Joining other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, this grammar of Dhimal will have lasting scientific value and aid the Dhimal community in preserving their language.
May 2009 ISBn 978 90 04 17573 0 Hardback (640 pp.) List price EUR 180.- / US$ 256. Brills Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 5/8
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A Grammar of Sunwar
Drte Borchers
April 2008 ISBn 978 90 04 16709 4 Hardback (xxvi, 318 pp.) List price EUR 93.- / US$ 132. Brills Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 5/7
This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia.
A Grammar of Lepcha
Heleen Plaisier
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Grammar of Kulung
Gerard Jacobus Tolsma
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A Grammar of Jero
A Grammar of Wambule
Grammar, Lexicon, Texts and Cultural Survey of a Kiranti Tribe of Eastern Nepal
Jean Robert Opgenort
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Rabha
U.V. Joseph
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Brills Tibetan Studies Library Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003
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Monasteries have been the locus classicus of the academic investigation of Tibetan religions. This volume seeks to balance this emphasis with an exploration of the diverse religious specialists who operate outside of the monastery in Tibet and along the Himalayan belt. The articles collected here depict Tantric professionals, visionaries, village lamas, spirit mediums, and female religious leaders whose loyalties reside in the noncelibate sphere but whose activities have had a significant impact on Tibetan religion. Using methodologies drawn from anthropological and textual scholarship, these seven essays bolster our understanding of religious practices and their performers beyond the monasteries of Central and Eastern Tibet, Bhutan, and India from historical times to the present day.
Tibetan Modernities
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In this volume, for the first time Tibetan Medicine is approached from a combination of anthropology and history. These two disciplines appear to be vital to come to understand Tibetan medical knowledge and practice as being complex, diverse and dynamic phenomena which reflect changing social and historical conditions at the same time while also appealing to or preserving an older canon of traditions.
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At the centre of this study is a shamans chant performed during a three-week long feast in the eastern Himalayas. The book includes a translation of this 12-hour text chanted in Apatani, a Tibeto-Burman language, and a description of the events that surround it, especially ritual exchanges with ceremonial friends, in which fertility is celebrated. The shamans social role, performance and ritual language are also described. Although complex feasts, like this one among Apatanis, have been described in northeast India and upland Southeast Asia for more than a century, this is the first book to present a full translation of the accompanying chant and to integrate it into the interpretation of the social significance of the total event.
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This study of an oral tradition in northeast India is the first of its kind in this part of the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis reveals parallel stories in an area stretching from central Arunachal Pradesh into upland Southeast Asia and southwest China. The subject of the volume, the Apatanis, are a small population of Tibeto-Burman speakers who live in a narrow valley halfway between Tibet and Assam. Their origin myths, migration legends, oral histories, trickster tales and ritual chants, as well as performance contexts and genre system, reveal key cultural ideas and social practices, shifts in tribal identity and the reinvention of religion.
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Buddhism
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Buddhism
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The Wholly Other, Liberation, Happiness and the Rescue of the Hopeless
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The Manifesto develops further the Critical Theory of Religion intrinsic to the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School into a new paradigm of the Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Theology of Religion. Its central theme is the theodicy problem. The Manifesto approaches this theme in the framework of comparative religion and critical political theology in a narrative and discursive fashion. In search of a solution to the theodicy problem, the Manifesto explores , trends in civil society toward Alternative Future I (the Totally Administered Society), Alternative Future II (the Militarized Society), and Alternative Future III (the Reconciled Society) in the horizon of the longing for the Wholly Other as perfect justice and unconditional love. Toward that goal it relies on both the critical theory of society as developed by Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, and on the new political theology of Johannes B. Metz, Helmut Peukert, and Edmund Arens. For table of contents please visit brill.nl/scss
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Mou Zongsan (1909-1995) was such a seminal, polymathic figure that scholars of Asian philosophy and religion will be absorbing his influence for at least a generation. Drawing on expertise in Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, and modern Western thought, Mou built a system of new Confucian philosophy aimed at answering one of the great questions: What is the relationship between value and being? However, though Mou acknowledged that he derived his key concepts from Tiantai Buddhist philosophy, it remains unclear exactly how and why he did so. In response, this book investigates Mous buddhological writings in the context of his larger corpus and explains how and why he incorporated Buddhist ideas selectively into his system. Written extremely accessible, it provides a comprehensive unpacking of Mous ideas about Buddhism, Confucianism, and metaphysics with the precision needed to make them available for critical appraisal. For table of contents please visit brill.nl/mcp
Buddhism
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The Chan monk Qisong (1007-1072), an important figure in Northern Song religious and intellectual history, has garnered relatively little scholarly attention. This book provides a detailed biography with a focus on the influential historical writings he composed to defend Chan claims of a mind-to-mind transmission tracing back to the historical Buddha. It places his defense of lineage in the context not only of attacks by the rival Tiantai school but also of the larger backdrop of the development of lineage and patriarchs as sources of authority in Chinese Buddhism. It advances new arguments about these Chinese Buddhist innovations, challenges common assumptions about Chan masters, and offers insights into the interactions of Buddhists, Confucians, and the imperial court during the Song.
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Buddhism
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Divine Knowledge
Buddhist Mathematics According to the Anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination
Brian G. Baumann
In an original and compelling examination of traditional mathematics, this comprehensive study of the anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination (published by A. Mostaert in 1969) takes on the fundamental problem of the post-enlightenment categorization of knowledge, in particular the inherently problematic realms of religion and science, as well as their subsets, medicine, ritual, and magic. In the process of elucidating the rhetoric and logic shaping this manual the author reveals not only the intertwined intellectual history of Eurasia from Greece to China but also dismantles many of the discourses that have shaped its modern interpretations.
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Buddhism
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Oriental Art
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Portraits of Chgen
John Rosenfield
november 2010 ISBn 978 90 04 16864 0 Cloth with dustjacket (240 pp.) List price US$ 132.- / EUR 93. Japanese Visual Culture, 1
This volume, the first in Brills Japanese Visual Culture series, vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunjb Chgen (11211206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in a brutal civil conflict in 1180. Through meticulous study of dedicatory material, Rosenfield is able to place the splendid Buddhist statues made for Chgen in new light. The volume also explores how Japans rulers employed the visual arts as instruments of government policy a tactic that recurs throughout the nations history. This publication includes an annotated translation of Chgens memoir, completed near the end of his life, in which he recounts his many achievements. While Chgen has been the subject of major art exhibitions and extensive research in Japan; this is the first book-length study to appear in the West. For more information on this new book series, please visit brill.nl/jvc
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Oriental Art
Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia The Western Chin in Kansu in the Sixteen Kingdoms Period and Inter-relationships with the Buddhist Art of Gandhra
Marylin Martin Rhie
June 2010 ISBn 978 90 04 18400 8 Hardback (lviii, 962 pp. 460 pp. illus.) List price EUR 249.- / US$ 354. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China / Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, 12/3 This book, third in a series on the early Buddhist art of China and Central Asia, centers on Buddhist art from the Western Chin (385-431 A.D.) in eastern Kansu (northwest China), primarily from the cave temples of Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan. A detailed chronological and iconographic study of sculptures and wall paintings in Cave 169 at Ping-ling ssu particularly yields a chronological framework for unlocking the difficult issues of dating early fifth century Chinese Buddhist art, and offers some new insights into textual sources in the Lotus, Hua-yen and Amitabha sutras. Further, this study introduces the iconographpy of the five Buddhas and its relation to the art of Gandhara and the famous five colossal Tan-yao caves at Yn-kang. The wide scope of topics, sites, and items discussed [], the expert knowledge of the author and the lucid style, in which Rhie presents the results of her studies, make this volume of the HdO a most welcome [..] study, a reference tool, and a comprehensive collection of illustrations that will be indispensable for readers interested in the history of Central Asian and Chinese Buddhism during the 1st to 4th c. A.D. Gerd Wdow, Monumenta Serica, 1999.
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The Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period in China and Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in Central Asia
Marylin Martin Rhie
August 2002 ISBn 978 90 04 11499 9 Hardback (1440 pp. 550 illus. (2 vols)) List price EUR 323.- / US$ 461. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China / Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, 12/2 Volume two of Marylin Rhies widely acclaimed and formative multi-volume work presents a comprehensive, scholarly and detailed study of the Buddhist art of China and Central Asia from 316-439 A.D. during the formative early periods of Buddhism in the Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period. Using texts translated from the Chinese together with stylistic and technical analyses, the chronology and sources of the art are more clearly defined than in previous studies for the regions of South and north China (other than Kansu) and the important sites of Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr on the northern Silk Route in eastern Central Asia. Furthermore, by incorporating extensive religious and historical materials, this work not only contributes to clarifying the regional characteristics of the art, but also offers new insights into the broader, interregional relationships of this politically fragmented period. a reference tool for subsequent generations, providing the raw data for interpretive studies of the disparate, piecemeal material that survives of early Buddhist artscholars wishing to unravel the complexities of Central Asian and medieval Chinese art will rely on Rhies massive study. Sarah E. Fraser, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2005.
Oriental Art
Later Han, Three Kingdoms and Western Chin in China and Bactria to Shan-shan in Central Asia
Marylin Martin Rhie
The earliest Buddhist art of China can only be understood when seen in relation to a wider area comprising Central Asia and India. This is exactly the purpose of the underlying volume. May 2007 ISBn 978 90 04 16137 5 Hardback (xxxviii, 466 pp. + 420 illus.pp.) List price EUR 259.- / US$ 369. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China / Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, 12/1 Presenting the earliest Buddhist art of China in its wider context of the Bactrian and Southern Silk Road regions in Central Asia (1st to 4th century A.D.), the author offers clarifications of the issues and new assessments regarding the cross-cultural and cross-regional interrelationships, sources, dating and chronology during these formative initial phases of Buddhism from India to China. With over 500 illustrations, 18 in full colour, 76 drawings and 14 maps, the book offers not only an overview of this complex and important period, but also the fullest and most detailed analysis of the art: individually, within its local region, and in relation to the wider, trans-Asian scope essential for a proper understanding of this period for a wide range of disciplines. ...the most in-depth investigation of early Chinese and Central Asian Buddhist art undertaken in recent decades. They exemplify the purpose and mission of the Handbuch der Orientalistik series. nancy Shatzman-Steinhardt. a work certain to become an important benchmark in the study of the complex relationship between Buddhist art in Central Asia an in China in the early centuries of the Christian era. Although not all the conclusions reached and the artistic relations observed will always be shared by other scholars, the impressive research carried out on this material is sure to constitute a starting point for all future investigations in this field. nicoletta Celli, Central Asiatic Journal, 2002.
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Painting Faith
An-yi Pan
September 2007 ISBn 978 90 04 16061 3 Hardback (xxiv, 438 pp.) List price EUR 152.- / US$ 217. Sinica Leidensia, 77
Despite Li Gonglins (ca. 1049-1106) deep faith in Buddhism and the large number of recorded and extant Buddhist paintings associated with or ascribed to this great painter, twentieth century scholarship on Li Gonglin has focused primarily on his literatus identity and Confucian art oeuvres. This book departs from this traditional view to establish Li Gonglins importance in Chinese Buddhist art history through both the local Longmian Chan and the larger northern Song religious contexts. It offers a fresh understanding of the impact the intermingling of Tiantai, Pure Land, Huayan and Chan philosophies and practices had on Li Gonglins faith and art. Painting Buddhist subjects to Li Gonglin was an expression of faith.
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