Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: This is the fifth issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, edited by Kurtis Schaeffer and released in December, 2009. This issues focuses on Tibetan canonical literature. (Bill McGrath 2010-05-13)

Table of Contents: Articles: “Contributions to the Development and Classification of Abhisamayālaṃkāra Literature in Tibet from the Ninth to Fourteenth Century” / James B. Apple -- “On the Very Idea of a Tantric Canon: Myth, Politics, and the Formation of the Bka’ ’gyur” / David B. Gray -- “Recovering a Lost Literary Heritage Preliminary Research on the Wanli Bka’ ’gyur from Berlin” / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- “Two Bka’ ’gyur Works in Mahāmudrā Canons: The Ārya-ātajñāna-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra and the Anāvila-tantra-rāja” / Roger R. Jackson -- “Classicism in Commentarial Writing: Exegetical Parallels in the Indian Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Commentaries” / Ulrich Timme Kragh -- “Canonical Literature in Western Tibet and the Structural Analysis of Canonical Collections” / Bruno Lainé -- “The Role of the Bodhicittavivaraṇa in the Mahāmudrā Tradition of the Dwags po bka’ brgyud” / Klaus-Dieter Mathes -- “A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis: Methodological Issues in the Study of a Mahāyoga Text from Dunhuang” / Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer -- “Notes on the Co ne Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.” / Susan Meinheit -- “Guṇaprabha’s Vinayasūtra Corpus: Texts and Contexts” / Paul K. Nietupski -- “On the Vicissitudes of Subhūticandra’s Kāmadhenu Commentary on the Amarakoṣa in Tibet” / Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp -- “Pseudepigrapha in the Tibetan Buddhist ‘Canonical Collections’: The Case of the Caryāmelāpakapradīpa Commentary Attributed to Śākyamitra” / Christian K. Wedemeyer

Book Reviews: “Akester’s Rejoinder to Professor Goldstein’s Response to ‘Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55, by Melvyn C. Goldstein’” / Matthew Akester -- “Goldstein’s Response to M. Akester’s Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55, by Melvyn C. Goldstein” / Melvyn Goldstein -- “Review of Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri’s Mission to Tibet, by Trent Pomplun” / Michael Sweet -- “Review of The Culture of the Book in Tibet, by Kurtis R. Schaeffer” / Hildegard Diemberger -- “Review of Tibetan Ritual, edited by José Ignacio Cabezón” / Christopher Bell

Means of availability: Online