Unearthing Bon Treasures: Life and Contested Legacy of a Tibetan Scripture Revealer, With a General Bibliography of Bon - Couverture rigide

Martin, Dan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004121234 ISBN 13 : 9789004121232

Editeur : Brill, 2001

Synopsis

The subject for this study, the Tibetan "treasure revealer" Gshen-chen Klu-dga', is a crucial figure in the development of Bon as an organised religion after the eleventh century. Here for the first time he is situated in the context of what was happening in Buddhism at the time.
By scrutinizing his life and gter-ma ("treasures"), that were to be of much controversy in later ages, Dan Martin sheds light on the mechanism of Tibetan polemical tradition and the ways in which sectarianism accords itself legitimacy by resurrecting ancient arguments in a subtly distorted manner.
The exhaustive annotated bibliography of previous works about Bon, forming the second part of the work, can rightly be seen as a legacy of Gshen-chen. Both parts taken together make this an indispensable guide to any student of Bon.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dan Martin, Ph.D. (1991) in Tibetan Studies (Indiana University), is at present a Researcher affiliated with the Department of Indian Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His published monographs are Mandala Cosmogony (Harrassowitz, 1994) and Tibetan Histories (Serindia, 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004121234
• ISBN 13: 9789004121232
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible