| Description |
1 online resource (480 pages) |
| Series |
Buddhism and modernity |
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Buddhism and modernity.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- By Thupten Jinpa and Donald S. Lopez Jr.; 1. First, How I Set Out from Lhasa; 2. General Formation of the Land of India and How It Acquired Its Name; 3. How the Lands Were Given Their Names; 4. The Snow Mountains of the North and Analysis of Related Issues; 5. What the Famous Places of the Past Are Like; 6. On Men, Women, Food, Drink, and Various Apparel; 7. Identification of Various Species of Flowers and Trees and How to Recognize Them; 8. Writing Systems of Various Lands of Past and Present; 9. On the Linguistic Rules of the Tibetan Language |
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10. The Inscriptions of the Dharma King Aśoka Carved on the Rock Face of Mount Girnar11. The Gupta Dynasty; 12. The Pāla Dynasty; 13. From 1,600 Years after the Passing of the Buddha to the Present; 14. On the History of Siṅghala; 15. On the Conditions and the Customs of the Tibetan People in Ancient Times; 16. The Religion of the Tīrthikas; 17. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Appendix A: Tibetan Transliteration; Appendix B: Glossary of Terms; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he did not receive the welcome he imagined: he was arrested by the government of the regent of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason. He emerged from prison three years later a broken man and died soon after. Gendun Chopel was a prolific writer during his short life. Yet |
| Analysis |
travelogue, exoticism, india, sri lanka, tibet, dalai lama, treason, political prisoner, modernity, british colony, colonialism, south asia, history, ethnography, drawings, illustrations, maps, 20th century, sacred sites, buddhism, sanskrit, classics, pilgrimage, folklore, legend, china, lhasa, dharma king asoka, gupta, dynasty, pala, singhala, linguistics, tibetan language, tirthikas, religion, spirituality, customs, native plants, mount girnar, snow mountains, nonfiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Buddhism
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History.
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thupten Jinpa.
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Lopez, Donald S., Jr., 1952- translator
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| ISBN |
9780226092027 |
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022609202X |
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