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| Central Asian Studies |
| Central Asian Studies continues a series of scholarly books on Central Asia and the Himalayas started in the early 1970s by a British publisher. The series comprises some re-issues of the previous books, as well as new titles. NOTE: Limited availability of some of the older titles. |
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| Buddhist Daily Ritual The Nitya Puja In Kathmandu Valley Shrines by Gregory Sharkey with Foreword by Richard F. Gombrichand Illustrations by Mukti Singh Thapa 2001. 387 pp., 23 colour photographs, 11 sketches. 22 x 16 cm., hardbound. ISBN-10: 974-8304-80-9 $39.50. In India, 695 rupees. ISBN-13: 978-974-8304-80-9 This book presents findings of research on a particular form of Buddhist ritual practiced by Sakyas and Vajracaryas, the inheritors of the monastic tradition and the highest Buddhist castes among the Newars, the indigenous people of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The author presents an authentic record of a unique form of Buddhist devotionalism and ritual: the everyday practices of the Newar Buddhists, the sole remnant of South Asia’s once extensive Mahayana community. Specifically, the exoteric liturgies performed each day at the main shrines of bahahs and bahis (as traditional Newar Buddhist viharas are known) are described, and the relationship of these rites to other elements of Newar Buddhist practice are analyzed, in order to shed light on connections between the latter and Buddhist practices elsewhere. This book is a major contribution to the study of South Asian ritual and Buddhist devotionalism. |
| The Hevajra Tantra: A critical study David Snellgrove Second edition 2010 (first published OUP London 1959, in two volumes), 2010, xvi, 350 pp., 2 b&w illustrations 23 x 15 cm., softcover. ISBN-13: 978-974-524-128-2 $50.00 In this groundbreaking work, the author presents us with a full translation of, and commentary on, the Hevajra tantra, providing not only deep insight into arguably the most important surviving tantric Buddhist text but also placing the entire corpus of such works into a more accurate context. Snellgrove presents the Hevajra tantra, and tantric texts of this class, not as a degenerate product of a faith at the time in terminal decline in India—as has often been claimed by puritanical scholars—but rather as a wholly legitimate expression of esoteric ritual and meditative practice developed as a natural evolution within the madhyamika tradition. While based primarily on Nepalese manuscript editions of the text, Snellgrove makes extensive reference to the Tibetan translation as well as to extant Indian commentaries. The first half of the work comprises an introduction and the actual translation with detailed annotations, while the second consists of the Romanized original Sanskrit and Tibetan texts and an extensive glossary. “Snellgrove has done an important job and he has done it very well indeed.” A. Bharati, JAS Vol. 20, No. 2 |
| Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan Successors by David L. Snellgrove 2004. 666 pp., 122 b&w pl., 5 maps, 1 line drawing, bibliography and index, 24.5 x 17.5 cm., hardcover. ISBN-10: 974-524-013-3 $45.00 ISBN-13: 978-974-524-013-1 This monumental study provides a comprehensive survey of Indian Buddhism and its subsequent establishment in Tibet, where it was tranferred more or less complete preceding its demise in northern India in the thirteenth century ad. It is especially informative on the tantric period of Buddhist theory and practice from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, but also deals at length with the earlier evolution of Buddhist doctrines, the ‘Three Turnings of the Wheel’, during the first thousand years. Later in the book the author deals mainly with the conversion of Tibet. He emphasizes the great importance played by the kingdoms of Central Asia along the ancient Silk Route in the gradual process of Tibetan conversion. Acknowledging his debt to other scholars of this little-known part of the world, Professor Snellgrove draws upon contemporary documents to illustrate the cultural changes that came over Tibet as a result of its rule from the seventh to ninth centuries of an extensive Central Asian Empire, a period of their history largely forgotten by the Tibetans themselves when they later embarked upon the wholesale absorption of Buddhism from its Indian source in the period up to the thirteenth century. |
| The Nine Ways of Bön: Excerpts from gZi-brjid Edited and translated by David Snellgrove 2010, 318 pp, 22 b&w plates, 24.5 x 17.5 cm., softcover. ISBN-10: 974-524-111-3 $40.00 ISBN-13: 978-974-524-111-4 To practising bonpos, Bön simply means the true religion of Tibet, while to Tibetan Buddhists, Bön refers to the false teachings and practices that were prevalent before Buddhism finally succeeded in gaining a firm hold on the country. The present study resulted from a period during which the author, a renowned scholar of Asian languages and cultures, was engaged in intense contact with practicing bonpos. It consists of the translation of fundamental texts of Bon, based on a manuscript of some 400 years of age, in which the entire Bön tantric practice is summarized. In many ways remarkably parallel to the early Buddhist teachings, much of the Bön tradition was subsequently incorporated back into Buddhism when that religion was formally adopted into Tibetan culture. This important study, first published in the 1960s and long out of print, will be welcomed by all with interest in the religions of the Himalayas. |
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