This book argues for the central role played by absorption in the functioning of the human mind. The importance of absorption makes itself felt in different ways; the two studies combined in this book concentrate on two of them. The first study, 'The Symbolic Mind', argues that, largely as a result of language acquisition, humans have two levels of cognition, which in normal circumstances are simultaneously active. Absorption is a (or the) means to circumvent some, perhaps all, of the associations that characterize one of these two levels of cognition, resulting in what is sometimes referred to as mysitcal experience, but which is not confined to mysticism and plays a role in various "religious" phenomena, and elsewhere. In the second st...
Publisher description: As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, ranging from the seventh century to the present day, and representing the full range of Tantric experience--Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and even Islamic. Each text has been chosen and translated, often for the first time, by an international expert in the field who also provides detailed background material. Students of Asian religions and general reader...
The human voice is one of the principal conveyers of social and affective communication. Yet relatively little is known about the neural circuitry that supports the recognition of different vocally expressed emotions. We conducted an FMRI study to examine the brain responses to vocal expressions of anger and happiness, and to test whether specific brain regions showed preferential engagement in the processing of one emotion over the other. We also tested the extent to which simultaneously presented facial expressions of the same or different emotions would enhance brain responses, and to what degree such responses depend on attention towards the vocal expression. Forty healthy individuals were scanned while listening to vocal expressions...
In tracing the early history of Penpo Nalendra ('phan po na len+d+ra, aka 'phan yul na len+d+ra) Monastery, Jackson provides accounts of its first eight abbots and of the conflicts the monastery had with Gelukpa (dge lugs pa) monasteries in the late 1480s. Included is a Tibetan history of Nalendra, a listing of the traditional divisions and estate holdings of the monastery, and a listing of more recent abbots.(Kevin Vose 2004-04-06)
A prominent anthropological work on Tibetan culture, Himalayan Dialogue uses the lens of hermeneutical dialogue to examine "shamanic" and "Buddhist" aspects of Tibetan culture. These two aspects operate out of quite different paradigms, and Himalayan Dialogue dramatically portrays the tense dialogue that has driven Tibetan culture for over ten centuries. Mumford uses the interaction between Tibetan exiles (Buddhist) in Nepal and indigenous Nepalese communities (shamanic) to reconstruct the interaction and development of Tibetan culture itself out of the interaction between indigenous traditions and Buddhism imported from India beginning in the eighth century CE. This study combines textual analysis with richly contextualized ethnographic data. Rites studied include exchanges with the underworld, demon exorcism, recalling the soul, and the famed guiding of the consciousness in the Tibetan death rite. (Steven Weinberger 2005-09-23)
The autobiography of the fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lozang Gyatso (Ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho, 1617-1682).
This is a review by Ram B. Chhetri of Susanne Von Der Heide, The Thakalis of North Western Nepal.
This is a review by Dilli R. Dahal of Heiko Schrader, Trading Patterns in the Nepal Himalayas.
This is a review by Ludwig F. Stiller, S. J., of N. G. Rhodes, K. Gabrisch, and C. Valdetarro, The Coinage of Nepal: From the Earliest Times until 1911.
This is a review by Nirmal Kumar Bhattarai of Predita Pohle, Useful Plants of Manang District: A Contribution to the Ethnobotany of the Nepal-Himalaya.
This is a review by Gunanidhi Sharma of B. P. Shrestha, Nepalese Economy in Retrospect and Prospect.
An excerpt of the verb entries from ZHANG (Bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo / Zhang Han Da Cidian [Great Tibetan Chinese Dictionary]. Beijing: Mi rigs dpe skrun kang / Minzu Chubanshe, 1985)
One of the best monolingual Tibetan dictionaries available. It contains ca 26.000 words, according to Kolmas, it uses a Western-style arrangement in columns, and it contains a large amount of vocabulary not found in most Western lexicons. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)
A Sanskrit-Tibetan dictionary of about 40,000 entries. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)
A Sanskrit-Tibetan-Mongolian dictionary of Buddhist terminology. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)
A Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)
Located both in stacks and reference. A more recent version in one volume exists, but has not been published in large quantities. 2 volume set available through Inprint. (David Germano 2007-12-13, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-02-06)
A Tibetan-Chinese dictionary of the Epic of Gesar. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)
This dictionary has definitions in both Tibetan and Chinese, and covers the important terms, figures, and places found in the Ling Gesar mythology. (David Germano 2007-12-13, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-02-06)
This dictionary gives Sanskrit in Tibetan transliteration, and the Tibetan equivalent. (David Germano 2007-12-13, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-02-05)
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