The Tibetans.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (364 pages)
- New York Academy of Sciences Series ; v.12 .
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transcription and Translation -- Maps -- 1 The Vessel and Its Contents -- High Peaks, Pure Earth -- Peasants, Nomads, and Traders -- The Tibetan Language -- 2 Prehistory and Early Legends -- Sources of Archeological Evidence -- Children of the Ape and the Ogress -- Tibetan Religion before Buddhism -- 3 The Tsenpo's Imperial Dominion -- The Rise of the Tibetan Empire -- Later Monarchs and the Promotion of Buddhism -- The Empire's Implosion -- 4 Fragmentation and Hegemonic Power -- Dynastic Successors and the Kingdom of Gugé -- The Buddhist Renaissance -- Mongols and Tibetan Buddhists -- Successive Hegemonies -- Tibetan Buddhism and the Ming Court -- 5 The Rule of the Dalai Lamas -- Monastics and Monarchs -- Between Mongols and Manchus -- Regency and Retreat -- Cultural Developments in Eastern Tibet -- The Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth -- 6 Tibetan Society -- Property, Economy, and Social Class -- Government and Law -- Marriage and Kinship -- Women in Traditional Tibet -- 7 Religious Life and Thought -- Propitiation, Therapy, and the Life-cycle -- Buddhist Basics -- Monastic Institutions and Education -- Tantrism and Yoga -- Major Orders and Schools -- Festivals, Pilgrimages, and Ritual Cycles -- 8 The Sites of Knowledge -- The Speech-Goddess's Mirror -- To Form Body, Speech, and Mind -- Medicine, Astronomy, and the Divinatory Sciences -- 9 Tibet in the Modern World -- The End of Traditional Tibet -- Rebellion and Exile -- The Promise and Peril of Century's End -- Notes -- Spellings of Tibetan Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.