Sources of Mongolian Buddhism / edited by Vesna A. Wallace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallace, Vesna A., editor.

Language:

English

Mongolian

Tibetan

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Mongolia--History--Sources.

Buddhism.

Buddhism--Mongolia--Doctrines--History.

Buddhism--Doctrines.

History.

Mongolia.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 523 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English, translated from original Tibetan and Mongolian.

Summary:

"This volume consists of twenty-four chapters containing a collection of selected original sources of Mongolian Buddhism, composed either in Tibetan or Mongolian language. This collection brings new material that has not yet been available in any of European languages. Translated sources serve as a lens through which to examine Mongolian Buddhism in its variety of literary genres and styles and religious and cultural ideas and practices. Each chapter includes a translation of a shorter text or a selected section of a longer text, and each contributor also provides the introduction to a translated text or texts, which contextualizes text, references and endnotes. The volume contains twenty-four chapters classified into eight sections: The Early Seventeenth Century Texts; Autobiography and Biography; Buddhist Teachings; Buddhist Didactic Poetry; Buddhist Ritual Texts; Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth Century Writings; Contemporary Buddhist Writings. stone inscription, doctrinal concepts, ornament for the mind, trilogy, didactic poetry, Buddhist literature, smoke offering, ritual texts, legend, internal regulations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The stone inscription of Covtu Taiji / Brian Bauman

Siregetü Güüsi Corji's treatise containing the complete meanings of the most important [doctrinal concepts] to be used / Agata Bareja-Starzynska

The autobiography of the first Khalkha Zaya pandita Lobsang Trinley / Sangseraima Ujeed

Zava Damdin's beautifying ornament for the mind of the faithfull: a priase-biography of my root lama Vajradhara, he who possesses the three types of kindness, the great Madapandita endowed with excellent discipline and learning named "Sanjaa" / Matthew W. King

A trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb Tendar / ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir

Miscellaneous writings of Caqar Gebsi Luvsancültem / Matthew W. King

Teachings of the pious fat pandita Tsevelvaanchigdorji / Vesna A. Wallace

Didactic poetry of Mergen Gegeen / Uranchimeg Ujeed

Didactic poetry of Danzanravjaa / Simon Wickham-Smith

Khalkha Zaya pandita's smoke offering rituals to the Khangai mountain range / Krisztina Teleki

Ritual texts of Mergeen Gegeen / Uranchimeg Ujeed

Ritual texts of prosperity and purification / Vesna A. Wallace

Ritual texts dedicated to the white old man with examples from the classical Mongolian and oirat (clear script) textual corpora / Birtalan Ágnes

Incense offering to the Lord Chinggis Khan / Matthew W. King

Caqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's offering ritual to the fire goddess / Batsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg Ushkhbayar

Three ritual prayers by Ondor Gegeen Zanabazar / Zsuzsa Mayer

The legend of Mother Tara the Green / Brian Baumann

Oral historical narratives from the early twentieth century / Adrienne Gecse

Zava Damdin's "A 1931 survey of Mongolian monastic colleges" / Matthew W. King

Agwan Dorjiev's questions about the past and future of Mongolian Buddhism / Matthew W. King

The internal regulations of Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar / Uranchimeg Tsultemin

Agvaanyam: "The origin of human beings and the holy dharma kings and ministers in Mongol lands", from the history of the dharma, the lamp of scriptures and reasoning / Matthew W. King

Literary treatments of Buddhism in the period of transition / Simon Wickham-Smith

Contemporary Buddhist poetry and fiction / Simon Wickham-Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190900694

0190900695

OCLC:

1099540170

Publisher Number:

99983733770