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Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions.

Books. 1962 AND THE McMAHON LINE SAGA by Claude Arpi. Lancer Publishers, New Delhi, 2013. IN his book, On China, Henry Kissinger writes that before launching the 1962 border war with India, Mao Zedong summoned his top generals and political leaders in October that year to Beijing.In order to boost their morale, give them courage and lift their confidence, Mao pointed to China’s earlier.

The Western Rediscovery of Tibetan Buddhism. One of the most striking features of Tibetan Buddhism is the system of monastic and spiritual succession based upon reincarnation. According to Buddhist doctrine, each being’s mind-stream, as if flows from life to life, finds itself in innumerable embodiments, at times as a god, demi-god, animal.

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Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led.

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Departing from the vexed debate on the nature of the Sino-Tibetan relationship, this thesis examines the Fifth Karmapa Deshin Shegpa’s historic visit to the Chinese court in the early Ming era. By reading across Chinese and Tibetan language sources, in this thesis I reconstruct the entire trip of the Karmapa, a case of another dimension through which Tibetan Buddhism is perceived and the.

International Association of Buddhist Studies 21 227 270 Ellingson Ter 1990 from SAST 262 at Yale University.

This article rethinks the nature of power and its relation to territory in the photographic event. Focusing on thousands of photographs taken during the British Younghusband Expedition to Lhasa between 1903 and 1904, it reorients understandings of photography as either reproducing or enabling the “negotiation” or contestation of power inequalities between participants.

The fourth issue of Trace Foundation's Latse Newsletter. This issue includes reports from the Foundation's library on our Tibetan calligraphy workshop, a tasting of the cheese from the Trace.

Michael R. Sheehy, Ph.D., is the Director of Scholarship at the Contemplative Sciences Center and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His work gives attention to the cultural history of marginalized traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, the thought and literature of contemplative.

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