Samten Gyaltsen Karmay

長野泰彦

A Survey of Bonpo Monasteries and Temples in Tibet and the Himalaya

Jeff Watt

"Accepting everything, refusing nothing through the centuries, it is the one all-embracing form of Tibetan religion," as leading Tibetan scholar David L. Snellgrove once said of Bon. This book, the first of its kind to be dedicated solely to the art of Bon religion and culture, which to this day has been overshadowed by its Buddhist counterpart, aims to explore and reveal the many hidden treasures of this so far overlooked religion. Engaging with the great scholars of the field, in particular the revered Samten G. Karmay, the reader is invited to delve into the depths of this wonderful culture. Jeff Watt, curator of the Rubin Museum of Art, enlightens the reader by differentiating between Bon and Buddhist art, which it are so often confused. The other contributors look at specific topics within Bon, including its paintings, sacred geography and its founding and therefore set the beautiful art and artifacts within their context. The purpose of this book is to inspire, and in the process to enable the reader to appreciate the beauty of Bon art while simultaneously gaining an understanding of the ethos of Bon, from the time of its founding through to the more than one million practicing Bonpo of today.

The Indigenous Religion of Tibet

Bon - the Magic Word

Dalai Lama V Ngag-dbang-blo-bzang-rgya-mtsho

The Gold Manuscript in the Fournier Collection

Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama

Collected articles on socio-cultural, myths, rituals and beliefs in ancient Tibet.

Studies in History, Myths, Rituals and Beliefs in Tibet

The Arrow and the Spindle

Philippe Sagant

études recueillies en hommage à Alexander W. Macdonald

Les habitants du toit du monde

泰彦·長野

New Horizons in Bon Studies

The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan) is a philosophical and meditative teaching. Its inception is attributed to Vairocana, one of the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks ordained at Samye in the eight century A.D. The doctrine is regarded among Buddhists as the core of the teachings adhered to by the Nyingmapa school whilst similarly it is held to be the fundamental teaching among the Bonpos, the non-Buddhist school in Tibet. After a historical introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon, the author deals with the legends of Vairocana (Part I), analysing early documents containing essential elements of the doctrine and comparing them with the Ch'an tradition. He goes on to explore in detail the development of the doctrine in the tenth and eleventh centuries A.D. (Part II). The Tantric doctrines that play an important role are dealt with, as are the rDzogs chen theories in relation to the other major Buddhist doctrines. Different trends in the rDzogs chen tradition are described in Part III. The author has drawn his sources mainly from early unpublished documents which throw light on the origins and development, at the same time also using a variety of sources which enabled him to explicate the crucial position which the doctrine occupies in Tibetan religions.

A Philosophical and Meditative Teaching of Tibetan Buddhism

The Great Perfection (rDzogs Chen)

Samten Gyaltsen Karmay

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