Sources of Mongolian Buddhism / edited by Vesna A. Wallace.
Contributor(s): Wallace, Vesna A [editor].
Language: eng.Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: xxiv, 523 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780190900694.Subject(s): Buddhism -- Mongolia -- History -- Sources | Buddhism -- Mongolia -- Doctrines -- History | Buddhism | Buddhism -- Doctrines | MongoliaDDC classification: 294.309517 Summary: Despite Mongolia's centrality to East Asian history and culture, Mongols themselves have often been seen as passive subjects on the edge of the Qing formation or as obedient followers of so-called "Tibetan Buddhism," peripheral to major literary, religious, and political developments. But in fact Mongolian Buddhists produced multi-lingual and genre-bending scholastic and ritual works that profoundly shaped historical consciousness, community identification, religious knowledge, and practices in Mongolian lands and beyond. In Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, a team of leading Mongolian scholars and authors have compiled a collection of original Mongolian Buddhist works—including ritual texts, poetic prayers and eulogies, legends, inscriptions, and poems—for the first time in any European language.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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In english, translated from original Tibetan and Mongolian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Despite Mongolia's centrality to East Asian history and culture, Mongols themselves have often been seen as passive subjects on the edge of the Qing formation or as obedient followers of so-called "Tibetan Buddhism," peripheral to major literary, religious, and political developments. But in fact Mongolian Buddhists produced multi-lingual and genre-bending scholastic and ritual works that profoundly shaped historical consciousness, community identification, religious knowledge, and practices in Mongolian lands and beyond. In Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, a team of leading Mongolian scholars and authors have compiled a collection of original Mongolian Buddhist works—including ritual texts, poetic prayers and eulogies, legends, inscriptions, and poems—for the first time in any European language.
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