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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.
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 doctrine.
Out of the many terms used previously in the time of my Father, Offspring of the Gods, by the teacher Bodhisattva (Śāntarakṣita), Jñānendra, Zḥang-blon Nyen-nya-bzang, Blon Khri-bzher Sang-shi, together with the translators Jñānadevakoṣa, lTse Khyi-'brug and the Brahman Ānanda and others, in the translation of a religious language ...
Tonpa Shenrab (Tibetan: སྟོན་པ་གཤེན་རབ་མི་བོ་།, Wylie: ston pa gshen rab་ mi bo, lit. ' Teacher Shenrab ' ), also known as Shenrab Miwo ( Wylie : gshen rab mi bo ), Buddha Shenrab , Guru Shenrab and a number of other titles, is the legendary founder of the Bon religious tradition of Tibet .
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 ...
Religion is extremely important to the Tibetans and has a strong influence over all aspects of their lives. [19] Bön is the ancient religion of Tibet, but nowadays the major influence is Tibetan Buddhism, a distinctive form of Mahayana and Vajrayana, which was introduced into Tibet from the Sanskrit Buddhist tradition of northern India. [20]
Tibet has national literature that has both religious, semi-spiritual and secular elements. While the religious texts are well-known, Tibet is also home to the semi-spiritual Gesar Epic, which is the longest epic in the world and is popular throughout Mongolia
Bon religion, on the other hand, is a Tibetan religion that has many shared beliefs with Buddhism and has many myths that originate before Buddhism was introduced into the country. [3] Bon religion primarily involves making peace between the human and celestial realms and is closely linked to Tibetan folklore.