Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: Publisher’s Description: This volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and aims to create a platform to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. This forum lets new materials emerge and brings to the fore a variety of different approaches to studying Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and societies. The papers in this volume deal not only with the substantial Mongolian contribution to and engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, but also with multiple readings of shared history and religion, reconstruction of traditions, shifting ethnic boundaries and the broader political context of the Mongolian-Tibetan relationship.

Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Towards Critical Studies of the Mongolian-Tibetan Interface / Hildegard Diemberger and Uradyn E. Bulag -- From Empire to Nation: the Demise of Buddhism in Inner Mongolia / Uradyn E. Bulag -- Tibetocentrism, Religious Conversion and the Study of Mongolian Buddhism / Johan Elverskog -- Dga’ Ldan Tshe Dbang Dpal Bzang Po and the Tibet-Ladakh-Mughal War of 1679-84 / Gerhard Emmer -- Festivals and their Leaders: the Management of Tradition in the Mongolian/Tibetan Borderlands / Hildegard Diemberger -- Ritual Idioms and Spatial Orders: Comparing the Rites for Mongolian and Tibetan ‘Local Deities’ / David Sneath -- Vital Force: the Story of Dugar Jaisang and Popular Views of Mongolian-Tibetan Relations from Mongolian Perspectives / Caroline Humphrey -- Tame from Within: Landscapes of the Religious Imagination among the Darhads of Northern Mongolia / Morten A. Pedersen -- On Chinggis Khan and Being like a Buddha: a Perspective on Cultural Conflation in Contemporary Inner Mongolia / Nasan Bayar -- Some Practices of the Buddhist Red Tradition in Contemporary Mongolia / Hanna Havnevik, Byambaa Ragchaa, and Agata Bareja-Starzynska -- A Brief Introduction to Ngag dbang dar rgyas and the Origin of Rnying ma Order in Henan County (Sogpo), the Mongolian Region of Amdo / Lce nag tshang Hum chen -- Danzan Ravjaa: the Fierce Drunken Lord of the Gobi / Hamid Sardar -- On the So-called Secret Biography of Tshang Dbyangs Rgya Mtsho / Jalsan -- Sumpa Khenpo Ishibaljur: a Great Figure in Mongolian and Tibetan Cultures / Erdenibayar -- The Origin of Malho Mongolian County / Kesang Dargyay -- Pasture Fights, Mediation, and Ethnic Narrations: Aspects of the Ethnic Relationship between the Mongols and Tibetans of Qinghai and Gansu / Shinjilt -- Mongol Cultural Sites and Customs in Modern ’Dam Gzhung (Tibet Autonomous Region) / Denlhun Tsheyang -- A Review of the Tibetan-Mongolian Lexicographical Tradition / Burnee Dorjsuren -- Notes on Contributors.