THE chief attraction which the Tibetan language possesses for the western reader is that it is the Latin of Central Asia, and preserves in its bulky literature the old-world lore and vestiges of early ...

Added t.p. in Tibetan. With Sanskrit equivalents of the respective Tibetan words, selected by native Indian scholars of mediæval and later days, in collaboration with Tibetan ... translators, and ...

Whatever her own commitments to the Tibetan language or Buddhism, Bénédicte Vilgrain utilizes their historical and philosophical aspects on behalf of her own work, and on behalf of poetry writ large.

Puchung Tsering began the project in 2012. He collected five versions of the "Tripitaka" from Nathang, Beijing, Dege, Zhuoni, and Lainai. He used the copy from Dege - which was the most complete - as ...

The Avalokiteśvarastotra, also known as Lokanāthastava, is a late popular Buddhist hymn that attracts by its mellifluous Sanskrit, its charming mātrāsamaka metre and its use of rhyme throughout. Its ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Oriental scholars all over the world have always favored the 86 Volumes old Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, ...

Watching the Sanskrit version of Sa Dingding’s video for her song “Alive” I found myself asking the question, “What would Edward Said think?” No one gets agitated when an Ang Lee or Zhang Yimou ...

The Buddha is said to have delivered some 84,000 teachings. The Tibetan Buddhist canon, all told, is more than 230,000 pages long. A global push to translate it all into English — described as a ...

Kate Hartmann is a scholar and educator focused on the history of Buddhism, especially in Tibet. Her research explores the history of Tibetan pilgrimage to holy mountains and the goal of transforming ...

BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 300 scholars on Tibetology from China and overseas gathered in Beijing on Monday for the opening of a key international seminar promoting Tibetan studies. The ...

Gyumey Tsultrim (1st L) and his colleagues collect ancient books before making an inventory of them in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, April 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje) At Truzing ...

Counting nearly 9 million words, The General History of Xizang was meticulously compiled and written over more than 10 years by a team of over 100 researchers and authors, culminating in its ...