Tibetan Ritual/
Cabezon, Jose Ignacio (ed.)
- 1st ed.
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- ix,304p.
1. Written Texts at the Juncture of the Local and the Global: Some Anthropological Considerations on a Local Corpus of Tantric Ritual Manuals (Lower Mustang, Nepal), Nicolas Sihle 2. Tibetan Indigenous Myths and Rituals with Reference to the Ancient Bon Text: The Nyenbum {Gnyan'bum), Samten G. Karmay 3. Continuity and Change in Tibetan Mah^yoga Ritual: Some Evidence from the Tabzhag {Thabs zhags) Manuscript and Other Dunhuang Texts, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell 4. The Convergence ofTheoretical and Practical Concerns in a Single Verse of the GuhyasamJXja Tantra Yael Senior 5. Chilu ('Chi hslu): Rituals for "Deceiving Death", Irmgard Mengele 6. Representations of Efficacy: The Ritual Expulsion of Mongol Armies in the Consolidation and Expansion of the Tsang (Gtsang) Dynasty; James Gentry 7. The "Calf's Nipple" (Be'u bum) of Ju Mipam (*}u Mi pham): A Handbook of Tibetan Ritual Magic Bryan J. Cuevas 8. Rites of the Deity Tamdrin (Rta mgrin) in Contemporary Bon: Transforming Poison and Eliminating Noxious Spirits with Burning Stones, Marc des Jardins 9. Texts as Deities: Mongols' Rituals of Worshipping Sutras and Rituals of Accomplishing Various Goals by Means of Sutras, Vesnc Wallace 10. The Ritual Veneration of Mongolia's Mountains, Jared Lindahl 11. Encounter with a Dream: Bhutanese Pilgrims in Tibet—Performing a Ritual?, Frangoise Pommaret