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Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet

Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet

Hardcover

Chinese HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004160647
ISBN13: 9789004160644
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 20 2007
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.63
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.64 Depth: 9.71
Language: English
The study of the rise and institutions of the Tibetan empire of the seventh to ninth centuries, and of the continuing development of Tibetan civilization during the obscure period that followed, have aroused growing interest among scholars of Inner Asia in recent decades. The six contributions presented here represent refinements in substance and method characterizing current work in this area. A chapter by Brandon Dotson provides a new perspective on law and divination under the empire, while the post-imperial international relations of the Tsong kha kingdom are analyzed by Bianca Horlemann. In The History of the Cycle of Birth and Death, Yoshiro Imaeda's investigation of a Dunhuang narrative appears in a revised edition, in English for the first time. The problem of oral transmission in relation to the Tibetan Dunhuang texts is then taken up in the contribution of Sam van Schaik. In the final section, Matthew Kapstein and Carmen Meinert consider aspects of Chinese Buddhism in their relation to religious developments in Tibet.

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