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Grand Union between Tibet and Mongolia: Unfulfilled Dream of the 13th Dalai Lama

The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2013
Since the late sixteenth century when Altan Khan of Tumed in Southern Mongolia adopted the Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism and sup­ported it as the common faith of the Mongol people, the teaching and discipline of Buddhism greatly influenced the ...
Tsedenbamba Batbayar
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Vajrayāna Art and Iconography

Zygon, 2000
Iconographic imagery in the Indo‐Tibetan Buddhist Tantric (i.e., Vajrayāna) tradition is replete with polymorphic symbolic forms. Tantric texts themselves are multivalent, addressing astronomy, astrology, cosmology, history, embryology, physiology ...
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On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]

, 2014
This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
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ON THE ISSUE OF THE EARLY INTERACTIONS OF THE MANCHU RULERS WITH TIBETAN LAMAS

RUDN Journal of World History, 2018
The article is devoted to the study of the early connections of the Manchu rulers with the highest leadership of Tibetan Buddhism. Probably, the countdown should be conducted from the 1620s, when the Manchus intensified their interaction with the ...
B U Kitinov, Liu Qiang
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A Message from Tibetan Buddhism

Journal of Moral Theology
Universal responsibility allows us to avoid exploiting resources. The benefits will be for us and for future generations. The United Nations should safeguard the long-term health of our planet and of humankind.
The Dalai Lama
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Where the Heroes and Sky-Goers Gather: A Study of the Sauraṭa Pilgrimage

Religions, 2017
Tibetan and Himālayan Buddhist doctrine and meditative traditions have been extensively studied and are well-known even to non-scholars, but pilgrimage and other non-elite practices have received far less attention.
Paul B. Donnelly
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The Mirror of Orientalism

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2005
This study deals with Orientalism, focusing on the main aspects of Tibet's image in the West, and particularly within Czech society. The first part summarises Tibetologists' and Buddhologists' previous research about Western images of Tibet and Tibetan ...
Jana Rozehnalová
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Bidirectional Transmission Mapping of Architectural Styles of Tibetan Buddhist Temples in China from the 7th to the 18th Century

Religions
Architecture is the stone book of history, and the evolution of architectural styles showcases a non-verbal history constructed through images. As an important part of China’s historical and cultural heritage, the architectural forms and styles of ...
Tianyi Min, Tong Zhang
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Constituting Canon and Community in Eleventh Century Tibet: The Extant Writings of Rongzom and His Charter of Mantrins (sngags pa’i bca’ yig)

Religions, 2017
This paper explores some of the work of Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo (hereafter Rongzom) and attempts to situate his pedagogical influence within the “Old School” or Nyingma (rnying ma) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.1 A survey of Rongzom’s extant writings ...
Dominic Sur
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Tibetan Buddhism in France: A Missionary Religion?

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2001
article published in Journal of Global Buddhism; Vol 2 (2001)
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