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The Dunga Dictionary of Tibetan Studies (Chinese: 东噶藏学大辞典 Wylie: dung dkar tshig mdzod chen mo, ZYPY: དུང་དཀར་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ) is a comprehensive reference work on Tibetan studies, published by the People's Republic of China and edited by renowned Tibetan scholar Dungkar Lozang Trinlé.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche in 1992, is a presentation of the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol. The author wrote, "I have written The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying as the quintessence of the heart-advice of all my masters, to be a new Tibetan Book of the ...
The Bardo Thodol (Tibetan: བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, Wylie: bar do thos grol, 'Liberation through hearing during the intermediate state'), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a terma text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones, [1] [note 1] revealed by Karma ...
Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. The Dunhuang manuscripts are a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Paul Pelliot and Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.
Tibetan texts on a planetary book scanner next to a microfilm scanner. BDRC seeks out and preserves undiscovered texts, organizes them into a library catalog system, and disseminates the library online and to remote locations on hard drives so anyone can read, print, or share the texts. Texts are cataloged by work, genre, subject, person, and ...
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur.The Kangyur or Kanjur is Buddha's recorded teachings (or the 'Translation of the Word'), and the Tengyur or Tanjur is the commentaries by great masters on Buddha's teachings (or the 'Translation of Treatises').
[4] A century later another Jesuit, the Italian Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733) was sent to Tibet and received permission to stay in Lhasa where he spent 5 years (1716–1721) living in a Tibetan monastery, studying the language, the religion of the lamas and other Tibetan customs. [5] He published a couple of books in Tibetan on Christian ...
This translation became widely known and popular as "the Tibetan Book of the Dead", but contains many mistakes in translation and interpretation. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Another text from the "Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation" is "Self-Liberation through seeing with naked awareness" ( rigpa ngo-sprod [ note 3 ] ), which gives an introduction, or pointing ...