Bringing Buddhism to Tibet
History and Narrative in the DBA' BZHED Manuscript
Series: Beyond Boundaries; 10;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher De Gruyter
- Date of Publication 16 December 2020
- ISBN 9783110715224
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages197 pages
- Size 280x210 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Tables, black & white 132
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Short description:
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a research initiative hosted by the British Museum and the British Library in London. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical boundaries, the books in this series explore the interactions of India and her neighbors from late antiquity to the close of the medieval.
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Long description:
Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is a landmark study of the Dba? bzhed, a text recounting the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. The narrative of Buddhism?s arrival in Tibet is known from a number of versions, but the Dba? bzhed?preserved in a single manuscript?is the oldest complete copy. Although the Dba? bzhed stands at the head of a long tradition of history writing in the Tibetan language, and has been known for more than two decades, this book provides a full transcription of the Tibetan for the first time, together with a new translation.
The book also introduces Tibetan history and the Dba? bzhed with several introductory chapters on various aspects of the text by experienced scholars in the field of Tibetan philology. These detailed studies provide analysis of the text?s narrative context, its position within traditional and current historiography, and the organisation and structure of the text itself and its antecedents.
Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is essential reading for anyone interested in Tibetan history and kingship, the nature of Tibetan historical narrative or the traditions of text transmission and codicology. The book will also be of general interest to students of Buddhism and the spread of Buddhism across Asia.
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