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The other emptiness: rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist discourse in Tibet,

The other emptiness: rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist discourse in Tibet,


ISBN: 9788195293148, 819529314X

This book brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or other-emptiness. Defined as the emptiness of everything other than the continuous luminous awareness that is one's own enlightened nature, this distinctive philosophical and contemplative presentation of emptiness is quite different from rangtong--emptiness that lacks independe...

The cave temples of India

The cave temples of India

Fergusson, James et al.

ISBN: 9788195549351, 8195549357

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. The author had spent ten years as an indigo planter in India and made numerous trips around India in order to study and document its cave temples. Beginning with a classification and chronology of the Buddhist caves, the cave temples in Kathiawar, South Konkan, Karla, Bhaja, Junnar, Nasic, Ajanta etc., are described in Book-I....

The archaeology of Tibetan books

The archaeology of Tibetan books

Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka

ISBN: 9789004275041, 9004275045

In this book, the author explores the varieties of artistic expression, materials, and tools that have shaped Tibetan books over the millennia. Digging into the history of the bookmaking craft, the author approaches these ancient texts primarily through the lens of their artistry, while simultaneously showing them as physical objects embedded in pragmatic, economic, and social frameworks.

The life and work of Auleshi: Sherpa Buddhist artist and adept, with translations by Tib Shelf

The life and work of Auleshi: Sherpa Buddhist artist and adept, with translations by Tib Shelf

Tengye, Ngawang et al.

ISBN: 9789937624350, 9937624355

5 contribution in English and Tibetan text of the life of Auleshi. The snerpa Buddhist monk Ngawang Lekshe (1913-1983), known as Auleshi, occupies a unique place in the history of Buddhism in 20th century Nepal.

Bhesajjamanjusa, Paddhati 1-18, Devanagari edition, with a foreword by Dipak Kumar Barua and intro. in English.

Bhesajjamanjusa, Paddhati 1-18, Devanagari edition, with a foreword by Dipak Kumar Barua and intro. in English.

Kumar, Bimalendra

ISBN: 9788177421514, 8177421514

The Bhesajjamanjusa, composed in Sri Lanka in the thirteenth century is the only known medical work available in Pali. It has drawn from about eighty medical treatises, some of which are Astangahrdaya, Astangasamgraha, Susrutasamhita, Carakasamhita, Siddhasara, Madhavanidana. It contains materials for study of bio-medical ethics, ethno-medicine, ethno-botany, medical anthropology, Pali lexicogr...

Bhutan: kingdom in the Himalaya

Bhutan: kingdom in the Himalaya

Sanjay Acharya

ISBN: 9788174360618, 8174360611

Tucked away in the eastern Himalaya, between the riverine plains of India and the cold and arid Tibetan plateau, Bhutan is the country of dreams, dragons, legends and landscapes.

Bodhicittavivarana of Acarya Nagarjuna and Bodhicittabhavana of Acarya Kamalasila, critically ed. Tibetan text with Hindi transl. by Gyaltsen Namdol

Bodhicittavivarana of Acarya Nagarjuna and Bodhicittabhavana of Acarya Kamalasila, critically ed. Tibetan text with Hindi transl. by Gyaltsen Namdol


This is a commentary on Bodhicitta text by Tathagata Vairocana found in the 2nd chapter of Guhyasamajatantra.

A Bonpo painting of protector deities

A Bonpo painting of protector deities

Karmay, Samten G.

ISBN: 9789937623445, 9937623448

The book is an iconographic study of an unusual Tibetan painting. The painting belongs to the Bon religious tradition and is currently preserved in the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, U.S.A.

Bonpo Thangkas from Rebkong, ed. by Bon brgya dge legs Ihun  grub rgya mtsho

Bonpo Thangkas from Rebkong, ed. by Bon brgya dge legs Ihun grub rgya mtsho


ISBN: 9789937623766, 9937623766

The present volume includes fifty-one thangkas depicting a pantheon of the Bon religion painted at Rebkong, China, presented as the Rebkong Bonpo collection at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

Fortunate to behold: a history of the birth of the blessed one Sakyamuni Buddha at Lumbini,

Fortunate to behold: a history of the birth of the blessed one Sakyamuni Buddha at Lumbini,

Rinpoche, Chogye Trichen

ISBN: 9789937624169, 9937624169

This book is one highly knowledgeable Tibetan Lama's brief history of Buddha Sakyamuni's birth in the Lumbini garden, told in a way meant to amaze and inspire readers. Later chapters tell about the author's founding of new temples in Lumbini and Bouddhanah. This corrected version gives a visually enriched version of an original and still very relevant contribution.

Buddhism across the grasslands of Chinggis Khan

Buddhism across the grasslands of Chinggis Khan

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788177421286, 817742128X

This book is a survey of Buddhist art, literature, monasteries and general history of Mongolian lands, the transcreation of the 6000 plus works in the Kanjur and Tanjur, highlights of Lamaism across the centuries, the writing of 220 philosophical, ritual, hagiographical and historical works under the Manchu dynasty, and so on. The development continued till 1920s when the communists took over. ...

Queens without a kingdom worth ruling: Buddhist nuns and the process of change in Tibetan monastic communities

Queens without a kingdom worth ruling: Buddhist nuns and the process of change in Tibetan monastic communities

Ehm, Chandra Chiara

ISBN: 9789937733380, 9937733383

Looking through the walls of a cloistered monastic community, such as a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery, is nearly impossible as lay person. These religious communities are multi-layered in being simultaneously places of spiritual development, Buddhist scholasticism, and religious devotion. This book invites the reader to step through the convent's walls to explore Tibetan monastic life from the persp...

Buddhist fire ritual in Japan

Buddhist fire ritual in Japan

Kolhatkar, Madhavi et al

ISBN: 9789937506960, 9937506964

The Buddhist Monasteries: their art and architecuture

The Buddhist Monasteries: their art and architecuture

Singh, Sanghasen et al. (ed.)

Contains papers presented at a seminar held in 2000 on the theme of this books by scholars in Hindi, English and Tibetan.

Himalayan Buddhist monasteries

Himalayan Buddhist monasteries

Rajesh, MN et al.

ISBN: 9788174360540, 8174360549

This book gives a glimpse of the mystical vibrant and serene world of Buddhist monasteries, locally known as gompas. Buddhist ceremonies, funeral and reincarnation rites, prayer rituals, festivals and dances re-enacting sacred historical events are captured in scintillating detail in this book with exquisite photographs and a vivid text.

Celestial gallery, text by Ian A Baker, foreword by Deepak Chopra

Celestial gallery, text by Ian A Baker, foreword by Deepak Chopra

Shrestha, Romio

ISBN: 9789380070728, 9380070721

The paintings represent a School of Contemporary Nepalese art that could almost be called postmodern: they adopt the visual components of an ancient iconographical tradition and present them in new contexts unconstrained by religious and artistic convantions.

Chinese and Tibetan societies through folk literature

Chinese and Tibetan societies through folk literature

Mukherji, Priyadarsi (b.1962)

ISBN: 9788170950738, 8170950732

The book for the first time, analyses Chinese and Tibetan folk literature along thematic lines, drawing contrast and similarities betwen the two cultural systems. It is as exhaustive an in-depth examination of a fascinating subject as could readily be proposed at all times.

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