Tibetan Studies_ Proceedings of the 5th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies NARITA 1989

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Foreword TSURUMI ShOseki ; Preface IHARA Shoren, YAMAGUCHI Zuiho ; Official IA TS Report Helga UEBACH ; Statutes of the International Association for Tibetan Studies ; List of Abbreviations ; <Vol. 1 Buddhist Philosophy and Literature> Yael BENTOR (Bloomington) Siitra-style Consecration in Tibet and its Importance for Understanding the Historical Development of the Indo-Tibetan Consecration Ritual for Stupas and Images ; Hubert DECLEER (Kathmandu) T,he Melodious Drumsound All-Pervading Sacred Biography ofRwa Lotsawa: about early Lotsawa a;~rs:j"" and I~I'\~C::' ; Georges DREYFUS (Charlottesville, U.S.A.) Universals in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism ; Franz-Karl EHRHARD (Kathmandu) The "Vision" of rDzogs-chen: A Text and its Histories ; Sonam Gyaltsen GONT A (Narita) Tsong kha pa's View on the Theory of Ekayana ; HAKAMAYA Noriaki (Tokyo) Some Doubts about the Evaluation of the Ten sNying po'i mdos and Tathagatagarbha Thought ; Paul HARRISON (Christchurch) Meritorious Activity or Waste of Time? Some Remarks on the Editing of Texts in the Tibetan Kanjur ; David JACKSON (Vienna) Birds in the Egg and Newborn Lion Cubs: Metaphors for the Potentialities and Limitations of "All-at-onc~" Enlightenment ; jampa Samten (Varanasi) Preliminary Notes on the Phug-brag bka'-'gyur: A Unique Edition ofthe Tibetan Buddhist Canon ; Leslie S. KAWAMURA (Calgary) On ,]igs-med gling-pa's Dris Ian Tin po ehe'i bstan beDs / lung gi gter mdzod ; KAWASAKI Shinjo (Tsukuba, japan) Discrepancies in the Sanskrit and .Tibetan Texts of Bhavya's Madhyamaka-hrdaya-Tarkajvala (the IXth and Xth Chapters) ; Tsultrim Kelsang KHANGKAR (Kyoto) The Tibetan Tradition Concerning the Councils in ; Helmut KRASSER (Vienna) On the Relationship between Dharmottara, Santarak~ita and Kamalasila ; Andrea LOSERIES-LEICK (Graz) The Use of Human Skulls in Tibetan Rituals ; Lozang Jamspal (New York) Zhalu Lotsava Chos skyong bZang po and His Literary Works ; Gelegjamtsyn LUBSANTSEREN (Ulan Bator) Some Remarks on Madhyamaka Doctrine (Siinyavada) ; Dan MARTIN (Bloomington) Crystals and Images from Bodies, Hearts and Tongues from Fire: Points of Relic Controversy from Tibetan History ; ODANI Nobuchiyo (Kyoto) The Study of the Abhidharmakosa in Tibet as Seen through the mChims mdzod ; ONODA Shunzo (Kyoto) Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge's Theory of 'gal ba ; Peter RICHARDUS (Leiden) The Life and Work ofYe shes Don grub (1897-1980) ; Cristina Anna SCHERRER-SCHAUB (Lausanne) Sa cu: «Qu'y-a-t-il au programme de la classe de philologie bouddhique?» ; Jeffrey Davis SCHOENING (Seattle) The Arya-salistambasya-!ikii: KamalaSila's Commentary on the SiJIistamba-sutra ; D. SEYFORT RUEGG (London) On the Tibetan Historiography and Doxography of the 'Great Debate of bSam yas' ; Kunchok SITHAR (Narita) Mahavairocanasutra in the Studies ofTsong kha pa's sN gags rim chen mo ; Ernst STEIN KELLNER (Vienna) Early Tibetan Ideas on the Ascertainment of Validity (nges byed flyi !shad mal ; TANAKA Kimiaki (Tokyo) A Comparative Study of Esoteric Buddhist Manuscripts and Icons Discovered at Dun-huang ; TANI Tadasi (Kochi, Japan) Rang rgyud 'phen pa'i thai 'gyur [Hypothetical Negativ/lndirect Reasoning (prasanga) with the Implication of Independent Direct Proof (svatantra)] [Tibetan Commentators' "Nleta-Interpretations on Dharmakirti's Interpretation of prasangaJ ; TANIGUCHI Fujio (Nagoya, Japan) Quotations from the First Bhavanakrama of Kamalaslla Found in Some Indian Texts ; David R. TEMPLEMAN (Victoria, Australia) Taranatha's Life of Kal).halKql).acarya-, an Unusual Siddha Hagiography ; Tom J. F. TILLEMANS (Lausanne) Tsong kha pa et al. on the Bhavaviveka-Candraklrti Debate ; Tilmann VETTER (Leiden) Paramarthika-prama1fa in Dharmaklrti's Prama·,.w-viniscaya and in Gtsang-nag-pa's Tshad-ma rnam-par nges-pa'i (i-ka legs-bshad bsdus-pa ; YOSHIMIZU Chizuko (Narita) The Distinction between Right and Wrong in the Conventional (kun rdzob, samurti) According to Tsong kha paand mKhas grub rje ; Introduction of the Contributors ; <Vol. 2 Language, History and Culture> Agata BAREJA (Warsaw) The History of Ancient Tibet According to the XVIIth Century Mongolian Chronicle Erdeni-yin TobCi. by Sayang Secen ; Terese Tse BARTHOLOMEW (San Francisco) Three Thangkas from Chengde ; Per-Arne BERGLIE (Stockholm) Tibetan Spirit-Mediumship: Change and Continuity Some Observations from a Revisit to Nepal ; J ohn BRAY (Devon, England) Christian Missionaries on the Tibetan Border: the Moravian Church in Poo (Kinnaur), 1865-1924 ; Katia BUFFETRILLE (Paris) Questions souleveespar la restauration de bSam yas ; Krystyna CECH (St. Andrews) A Religious Geography of Tibet According to the Bon Tradition ; Graham E. CLARKE (Oxford) Aspects of the Social Organisation of Tibetan Pastoral Communities ; Christoph CUPPERS (Dusseldorf) Some Remarks on a Tibetan-Newari Lexicon cum Phrase Book ; Hildegard DIEMBERGER (Vienna) Lovanga [Lo 'bangs pa?] Lama and Lhaven [Lha bon]: Historical Background, Syncretism and Social Relevance of Religious Traditions among the Khumbo (East Nepal); Siglinde D1ETZ (Gettingen) Cosmogony as Presented in Tibetan Historical Literature and its Sources; Ronald E: EMMERICK (Quickborn) Tibetan Databank Management with Personal Computers ; Elisabeth FINCKH (Hamburg) Practice of Tibetan Medicine: Notes on Moxibustion (me btsa') ; Antoon GEELS (Lebered) Ego-Psychology and the Problem of Ecstasy A Case-study of a Tibetan Shaman ; Janet B. GYATSO (Amherst) Autobiography in Tibetan Religious Literature: Reflections on its Modes of Self-Presentation ; Amy HELLER (Nyon) Historic and Iconographic Aspects of the Protective Deities Srung-ma dmar-nag ; Toni HUBER (Christchurch) Some 11th-Century Indian Buddhist Clay Tablets (tsha-tsha) from Central Tibet ; IMAEDA Yoshiro (Paris) National Library of Bhutan: Role and Function ; ISHIHAMA Yumiko (Tokyo) A Study of the Seals and Titles Conferred by the Dalai Lamas ; Patrick KAPLANIAN (Paris) Analyse du nouvel an populaire au Ladakh ; Samten G. KARMAY (Paris) A Pilgrimage to Kongpo Bon-ri ; Josef KOLMAS (Prague) A Chronology of the Ambans of Tibet Part 1: The Ambans and Assistant Ambans in the Yongzheng and the Qianlong Period (l727-1795) ; Erberto' LO BUE (Luserna San Giovanni) The Princes of Gyantse and their Role as Builders and Patrons of Arts ; Roy Andrew MILLER (Honolulu) The Role of the Smrasgo in the Tibetan Grammarians' Tradition ; MIMAKI KatsUI;ni (Kyoto) Two Minor Works Ascribed to dB us pa blo gsal ; MIYAWAKI Junko (Tokyo) Tibet-Mongol Relations at the Time of the First Rje btsun dam pa Qutuytu ; Marceline de MONTMOLLIN (Auvernier) bKra shis sgo mang of Bhutan: On a Specific Tradition of Shrines and its Prolongation in the Museum of Ethnography in Neuchiitel (Switzerland) ; Ngawangthondup NARKYID (Dharamsala) A Proposal: Refinement of the Tibetan Language and Standardization of its Writing System ; Braham NORWICK (New York) Why Tibet Disappeared from "Scientific" 16th-17th Century European Maps ; OKADA Hidehiro (Tokyo) The Third Dalai Lama and Altan Khan of the Turned ; OKUY AMA Naoji (Ichinoseki, Japan) On the Basic Structure of the Potala Palace ; Jampa L. PANGLUNG (Munich) On the Narrative of the Killing of the Evil Yak and the Discovery of Salt in the Chos-'byungofNyang-ral ; Luciano PETECH (Rome) Yuan Official Terms in Tibetan ; Francoise POMMARET (Paris) Les revenants de l'au-delit ('das log): sources litteraires et tradition vivante U ne premiere presentation ; R. E. PUBAEV (Ulan-Ude) Study of the Tibetan Collection in Buryatia ; Valrae REYNOLDS (Newark) Tibetan Art in a Museum Setting: Problems of Decontextualization and Recontextualization. The New Tibetan Galleries of The Newark Museum as a Case Study ; Andras RONA-TAS (Budapest) Reconstructing Old Tibetan ; Donatella ROSSI Qakarta, Indonesia / Italy) Some Notes on the Tibetan Amdo Love Songs ; Geoffrey SAMUEL (Newcastle, N.S.W.) Ge sar of Ling: The Origins and Meaning of the East Tibetan Epic ; Christian SCHICKLGRUBER (Vienna) Grib: On the Significance of the Term in a Socio-Religious Context ; M. V. SOFRONOV (Moscow) Tibetan Transcription of Tangut Script: The Problem of Prefixes ; Elliot SPERLING (Bloomington) Notes on References to 'Bri-Gung-pa-Mongol Contact in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries ; Brigitte STEINMANN (Paris) Doila tamang et rites de mods: image des ancetres it travers les textes rituels ; TAKEUCHI Tsuguhito (Kyoto) On the Old Tibetan Sale Contracts ; Tashi Tsering (Dharamsala) History of the Gling-tshang Principality of Khams: A Preliminary Study ; Helga UEBACH (Munich) Notes on the Section of Law and State in the Chos-'byung,oflDe'u ; Pieter Cornelis VERHAGEN (Leiden) A Ninth-Century Tibetan Summary of the Indo-Tibetan Model of Case-semantics ; WAKAMATSU Hiroshi (Kyoto) Ilagugsan Qutugtu: An Essay ; WANG Yao (Beijing) An Inquiry into Polo -Tibet's contribution to the athletic sports ; Kulbhushan WARIKOO (New Delhi) Ladakh's Trade Relations with Tibet under the Dogras ; Alex WAYMAN (New York) The K~a Final,in the Vifvalocana Lexicon ; YAMAGUCHI Zuiho (Narita) The Significance of Intercalary Constants in the Tibetan Calender and Historical Tables of Intercalary Months ;