Encyclopedia of Religion

dynasty. This work was written along the lines of Chegwan’s Sagyo ̆ngui, but whereas Chegwan presents the meditational practices ...

ings earned him the informal title of jizhu, the Master of Commentaries. Zhanran died in 782, and was buried next to the remains ...

died in 1655 at the age of fifty-six; his popular posthumous title was Lingfeng Yuyi Dashi. His extant corpus of writings is vol ...

TIBETAN RELIGIONS: AN OVERVIEW To the Western mind, Tibet has traditionally appeared as a remote yet uniquely fascinating countr ...

quently encountered myth, the first king of Tibet descended from heaven (“the sky”) and alighted on the summit of a mountain (ac ...

with a religion that enjoyed high prestige because of its well- established status in the mighty neighboring countries of India ...

Pilgrimages constitute an important religious activity: above all to the holy city of Lhasa—sanctified by its ancient temples an ...

hala or to hidden valleys, untouched by man, in the secret recesses of the Himalayas. Summing up, Tibetan popular religion may p ...

General Studies A classic and still useful introduction to the subject is Charles A. Bell’s The Religion of Tibet (1931; reprint ...

gious life of Tibet occurred during the twentieth century. These events drove some Tibetans into a Western-oriented study of the ...

contemporaries is completely outdated. His work parallels that of the founders of Buddhist studies in Europe, who worked from In ...

study of autobiographical writing in Tibet, especially by vi- sionary yogis, is Janet Gyatso’s Apparitions of the Self: The Se- ...

and Rolf A. Stein’s Recherches sur l’épopée et le barde au Tibet (1959). The former study shows the influence of the “nature myt ...

Tsadra Foundation: http://www.tsadra.org. MICHAEL L. WALTER (1987) FRANÇOISE POMMARET (2005) TIELE, C. P. (1830–1902), Dutch his ...

T’IEN-T’AI SEE TIANTAI TIKHON (born Vasilii Ivanovich Belavin; 1865–1925), patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church. Prior to be ...

tained the damage from the Living Church, he paid the heavy price of being effectively isolated from his shattered flock and of ...

cally controlled by the central government of the Solomon Islands, its distance from the seat of government and its gen- eral is ...

Unlike some of the larger Polynesian groups, the Tikopia had no separate category of priests whose main func- tion was ritual pe ...

the next. The cycle began with the burning of a fire stick, and until the ceremony was completed, there was a ban on noise and m ...

Various parts of the order of service and some gospels were translated into the Tikopia language, and the communion service was ...