Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Tibetan script was developed from an Indic script in the 7th century during the Tibetan Imperial period. Literature in the Tibetan language received its first impetus in the 8th century with the establishment of the monastic university Samye for the purpose of the translation of the voluminous Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into the vernacular.
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 ...
Recognized as a key project under China's Ninth Five-Year Plan in 1988, [1] this dictionary serves as a vital resource for scholars of Tibetan studies and educators teaching the Tibetan language. [2] The dictionary spans 2.8 million words and includes approximately 14,000 entries.
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.
Books by the 14th Dalai Lama (10 P) P. Tibetan philosophy (3 C) ... Pages in category "Tibetan literature" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
David-Néel's book shared this vision by proposing a positive, exotic, and spiritual image of Tibet, which went beyond the classic colonialist assertion of superiority and rivalry. [ 4 ] Alexandra David-Néel was a great admirer of Oriental cultures and mysticism, as she herself was a Buddhist .
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying; W. With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet This page was last edited on 14 April 2024, at 20:20 (UTC). Text ...