Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: This volume brings together papers dedicated to issues of territory as it relates to culture, language, and history. The volume is divided into sections by region, covering the cultural areas of central Tibet, eastern Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and north-west India. This is the ninth publication of papers presented at the ninth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. It is dedicated to Anne-Marie Blondeau and features two short pieces on her life and work. (Ben Deitle 2006-03-28)

Table of Contents: list of illustrations ; Eulogium / Ernst Steinkellner ; Anne-Marie Blondeau / Katia Buffetrille and Hildegard Diemberger ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction / Katia Buffetrille and Hildegard Diemberger - - pt. 1. Central Tibet : King Srong btsan sgam po according to the Dba' bzhed: Remarks on the Introduction of Buddhism into Tibet and on the Greatest of the Tibetan Royal Ancestors / Pasang Wangdu ; The People of Porong and Concepts of Territory / Hildegard Diemberger ; The Victory Song of Porong / Charles Ramble ; Bod kyi gzhi bdag gi skor la nyams zhib phran bu byas pa'i zin bris / Hortshang Jigme (hor gtsang 'jigs med) ; Gnas mchog gi glu dbyangs/_bod kyi rtsom rig gsar pa'i rig gnas kyi go don skor gleng ba/ / Tsering Yangdzom (ldan lhun tshe ring dbyangs 'dzoms) - - pt. 2. Eastern Tibet : Sino-Tibetan Relations in Eighteenth-Century Labrang / Paul Nietupski ; Qui est Khri ka'i yul Iha? Dieu tibétain du terroir, dieu chinois de la littérature ou de la guerre? Un problème d'identité divine en A mdo / Katia Buffetrille - - pt. 3. Bhutan : La danse des 'Huit catégories de dieux et démons' au Bhoutan / Françoise Pommaret ; The Lha 'bod: An Invocation Ritual in Sbe nag (Western Bhutan) / Tandin Dorji ; Mkhar phud: A non-Buddhist Festival of Eastern Bhutan / Ugyen Pelgen - - pt. 4. Nepal : L'expérience émotionnelle de l'espace: Une approche de 'l'espace thymique' des chamans tamang du Népal / Brigitte Steinmann ; Embodied Ancestors: Territory and the Body in Thangmi Funerary Rites / Sara Shneiderman ; Ethnonyms and Other-Nyms: Linguistic Anthropology among the Thangmi of Nepal / Mark Turin ; Abducting the Divine Bride: Reflections on Territory and Identity among the Bonpo Community in Phoksumdo, Dolpo / Marietta Kind ; Territorial Concepts of the Stūpa as Defined by Ritual Route Patterns within Rites of Passage or Annual Festivals: A Study of the Two Cilañco Stūpas in the Kāṭhmāṇḍu Valley / Reinhard Herdick - - pt. 5. North-Western India : A Description of Spyi ti by J. Gergan / Elena de Rossi Filibeck ; The Bod of Kabön (Jammu and Kashmir, India): How to Be a Buddhist in a Hindu Land? / Isabelle Riaboff - - maps ; contributors.