The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism : its fundamentals and history.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bdud-ʼjoms ʼJigs-bral-ye-shes-rdo-rje, 1904-1987.

Contributor:

Gyurme Dorje.

Kapstein, Matthew

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Bstan-pa'i rnam-gzhag'. English

Language:

English

Tibetan

Subjects (All):

Rnying-ma-pa (Sect)--History.

Rnying-ma-pa (Sect).

Rnying-ma-pa (Sect)--Doctrines.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 973, xxi, 485 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

[Second edition].

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications, [2002]

Summary:

Two treatises, Fundamentals of the Nyingma School and the History of the Nyingma School, are among the most widely read of all His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche's works. Composed during the years immediately following his arrival in India as a refugee, these treatises were intended to preserve the precise structure of the Nyingma philosophical view within its own historical and cultural context. "The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, the first English translation of these treatises, constitutes the most complete work of its type in the West. Beautifully presented, this single-volume edition features illustrations in black and white and in color, plus maps, bibliographic information, and useful annotations. The book includes chronologies and glossaries that elucidate Buddhist doctrine, and provides fascinating insights into the Buddhist history of Tibet.

Contents:

section 1. The translations. Fundamentals of the Nyingma school / Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje ; translated and edited by Gyurme Dorje ; associate editor Matthew Kapstein. History of the Nyingma school / Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje ; translated and edited by Gyurme Dorje with the collaboration of Matthew Kapstein

section 2. Reference material / Gyurme Dorje and Matthew Kapstein.

Notes:

"Preface to the second edition"--P. [xxxii] (first group).

"The present volume reproduces in full the text of the two volumes of the original publication ... [with] a reduced selection of the photographic plates ... and it corrects, without comment, a number of errors and infelicities that were found in the text after careful review. A list of addenda to the bibliography of the works ... has also been added"--P. [xxxii] (first group).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-318 (second group)) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Contains:

Bdud-ʼjoms ʼJigs-bral-ye-shes-rdo-rje, 1904-1987. Rñiṅ-maʼi 'Chos-ʼbyung. English. 2002.

ISBN:

0861711998

OCLC:

51465661