Asian horizons : Giuseppe Tucci's Buddhist, Indian, Himalayan and Central Asian studies / edited by A.A. Di Castro and D. Templeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Castro, Angelo Andrea.

Templeman, David.

Series:

Serie orientale Roma ; v. 106.

Monash Asia series

Serie orientale Roma ; vol. CVI

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tucci, Giuseppe, 1894-1984.

Tucci, Giuseppe.

Historiography.

Asia--Historiography.

Asia.

Civilization, Oriental.

Buddhism--Doctrines.

Buddhism.

Asia, Central--Civilization.

Asia, Central.

Central Asia.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 613 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plates (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne [Australia] : Monash University Publishing, 2015.

Contents:

Part I

1 Giuseppe Tucci, anti-Orientalist / Gustavo Benavides Benavides, Gustavo 3

2 A glimpse of some archives on Giuseppe Tucci's scientific expeditions to Tibet: 1929-4939 / Francesco D'Arelli D'Arelli, Francesco 16

3 The problem with folk: Giuseppe Tucci and the transformation of folksongs into scientific artefacts / Ruth Gamble Gamble, Ruth 45

4 "A very useful lie": Giuseppe Tucci, Tibet, and scholarship under dictatorship / Alex McKay McKay, Alex 68

5 The "thought" of Giuseppe Tucci / Francesco Sferra Sferra, Francesco 83

Part II

6 Reaffirming the "origins" of Mahamudra / Giovanni Arca Arca, Giovanni 113

7 The implication of Giuseppe Tucci's work for epic and Puranic studies / Greg Bailey Bailey, Greg 175

8 Merchants, mercenaries and monarchs: Christians in Safavid Iran / James Barry Barry, James 184

9 A survey of Sassanian seals / Zoureh Baseri Baseri, Zoureh 197

10 The Bodhisattva Vajrapani's Laghutantratika and the rotation of yoginfs: structure of the mandala and dynamic motion / Claudio Cicuzza Cicuzza, Claudio 210

11 Nibbana as the fruit of meritorious deeds in the Apadana / Chris Clark Clark, Chris 229

12 Mapping the Buddhist sacred status of Triloknath / Diana Cousens Cousens, Diana 241

13 Goat heads and goddesses in Swat, Gandhara and Kashmir and connected problems / Angelo Andrea Di Castro Castro, Angelo Andrea Di 263

14 The theory and practice of the Mandala: ritual and identity in the Kabir Panth / Peter Friedlander Friedlander, Peter 296

15 Philosophical reasoning and spiritual practice: Giuseppe Tucci on Buddhist philosophical systems / Andrew McGarrity McGarrity, Andrew 313

16 The story of Bon in the Naxi Dongba religion / Christine Mathieu Mathieu, Christine 348

17 Under the female gaze: Isabella Bird's travels among the Tibetans / Isabella Ofner Ofner, Isabella 409

18 The creation of theism personified: a conceptual history of the god-maker Avalokitesvara / Iain Sinclair Sinclair, Iain 431

19 Revising Tucci's sixteenth-seventeenth century: new data on Tibet's Civil War (1603-1621) / David Templeman Templeman, David 479

20 Google Earth™ @ Ghazni / David Thomas Thomas, David 495

21 Rediscovering rainbow colour in the textile aesthetic of Bhutan / Alathea Vavasour Vavasour, Alathea 529

22 The classical Arabs' thought, Bayazid al-Ansari (1525-1572) and his mystical work Maqsud al-Mu'minin: mysticism and Sunni orthodoxy in the Pakhtun zone / Dennis Walker Walker, Dennis 544

23 Cultures of the body: medical pluralism, bacteria and Tibetan refugees / Tanya Zivkovic Zivkovic, Tanya 585.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781922235336

1922235334

OCLC:

912381327