Tibetan ritual /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource ( ix, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | [CRKN ebooks] [MyiLibrary] [CRKN ebooks]. [MyiLibrary] |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12241586 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Written Texts at the Juncture of the Local and the Global: Some Anthropological Considerations on a Local Corpus of Tannic Ritual Manuals (Lower Mustang, Nepal)
- 2. Tibetan Indigenous Myths and Rituals with Reference to the Ancient Bön Text: The Nyenbum (Gnyan'bum)
- 3. Continuity and Change in Tibetan Mahayoga Ritual: Some Evidence from the Tabzhag (Thabs zhags) Manuscript and Other Dunhuang Texts
- 4. The Convergence of Theoretical and Practical Concerns in a Single Verse of the Guhyasamaja Tantra
- 5. Chilu ('Chi bslu): Rituals for "Deceiving Death"
- 6. Representations of Efficacy: The Ritual Expulsion of Mongol Armies in the Consolidation and Expansion of the Tsang (Gtsang) Dynasty
- 7. The "Calf's Nipple" (Be'u bum) of Ju Mipam ('Ju Mi pham): A Handbook of Tibetan Ritual Magic
- 8. Rites of the Deity Tamdrin (Rta mgrin) in Contemporary Bön: Transforming Poison and Eliminating Noxious Spirits with Burning Stones
- 9. Texts as Deities: Mongols' Rituals of Worshipping Sutras and Rituals of Accomplishing Various Goals by Means of Sutras
- 10. The Ritual Veneration of Mongolia's Mountains
- 11. Encounter with a Dream: Bhutanese Pilgrims in Tibet-Performing a Ritual?
- Bibliography
- Index
