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<p><strong>Creator's Description</strong>: This essay is a study of the corpus of texts associated with the <em>Vinayasūtra</em>, written by ninth-century Indian scholar Guṇaprabha, and included in the Tibetan Bstan 'gyur. The essay begins with consideration of the sūtra format of the texts, the myths associated with the author, and continues to examine the Indian and Chinese Vinayas available to the Tibetans and their choice of the Mūlasarvāstivāda and Guṇaprabha's Vinayasūtra corpus. These are followed with a brief discussion of the problems of manuscript availability and translation into Tibetan. The essay concludes with a brief review of the texts and their translators. The Tibetans' choice of these texts as core documents for Tibetan Buddhism is relevant to the study of canon formation, to the institutionalization of monasticism, the place of monastic life in Tibetan Buddhism in relation to philosophical inquiry and tantric ritual, and to the Tibetans' preference for Indian sources.</p>
This book portrays the Labrang (bla brang) region in the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the accounts and photographs of the Griebenow family, Christian missionaries in the region from 1922-1949. Additional foci are Labrang Monastery, the Alo clan that ruled Labrang in this period, and the interplay of the disparate ethnic groups in this borderland on one corner of the Tibetan plateau.(Kevin Vose 2004-03-23)
<p>This book portrays the Labrang (bla brang) region in the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the accounts and photographs of the Griebenow family, Christian missionaries in the region from 1922-1949. Additional foci are Labrang Monastery, the Alo clan that ruled Labrang in this period, and the interplay of the disparate ethnic groups in this borderland on one corner of the Tibetan plateau.(Kevin Vose 2004-03-23)</p>
This volume brings together papers dedicated to issues of territory as it relates to culture, language, and history. The volume is divided into sections by region, covering the cultural areas of central Tibet, eastern Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and north-west India. This is the ninth publication of papers presented at the ninth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. It is dedicated to Anne-Marie Blondeau and features two short pieces on her life and work. (Ben Deitle 2006-03-28)