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Tibetan songs of realization : echoes from a seventeenth-century scholar and siddha in Amdo / Victoria Sujata.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sujata, Victoria.
- Series:
- Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 7.
- Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs, Tibetan--Texts.
- Songs, Tibetan.
- Spiritual life--Buddhism--Poetry.
- Spiritual life.
- Buddhism--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Music.
- Buddhism.
- Skal-ldan-rgya-mtsho, Ron-po Grub-chen, 1607-1677.
- Skal-ldan-rgya-mtsho.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (475 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is the first commentary in Western literature on the Mgur 'bum, or Collected Songs of Spiritual Realization, of the great Tibetan scholar and siddha, Skal ldan rgya mtsho (1607-1677). Dr. Sujata provides the original Tibetan verses alongside her translations throughout her commentary. A unique CD is included that contains the author's recordings of Skal ldan rgya mtsho's songs as they are sung today in the vicinity of his favorite hermitage.
- Contents:
- Author's Preface; Notes on Contributors; Chapter One. The Rising Sun of the Teaching in Amdo; Chapter Two. Solitary Hermitages; Chapter Three. Connections with Mi la ras pa; Chapter Four. Involvement with the Dga' ldan Oral Tradition of Mahamudra; Chapter Five. The Genre of Mgur and What it Meant to Skal ldan rgya mtsho; Chapter Six. Dialogues: Mgur in Conversation with Animals; Chapter Seven. Metrics; Chapter Eight. Stanza Patterns; Chapter Nine. Poetic Figures I. Those Showing Influence from the Kavyadarsa; Chapter Ten. Poetic Figures II. Indigenous Tibetan Poetic Figures
- Coda The Tradition of Singing Skal ldan rgya mtsho's Mgur TodaySummary and Conclusions; APPENDICES; Appendix A. Selected Mgur Translated in Full; Appendix B. Yab rje Skal ldan rgya mtsho's Life in Brief; Appendix C. Contents of the Accompanying CD of Skal ldan rgya mtsho's Mgur Sung Today; Appendix D. Extant Versions and Critical Edition of the Mgur 'bum; Appendix E. A Catalogue of Skal ldan rgya mtsho's Gsung 'bum (Collected Writings); Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- "A catalogue of Skal ldan rgya mtsho's gsungbum (collected writings)": p. [384]-426.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-441) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86713-2
- 9786610867134
- 1-4294-2737-X
- 90-474-0632-X
- 1-4337-0475-7
- OCLC:
- 476024711
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