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白館, 戒雲, ཨཱ་ཙརྱ་ཁང་དཀར་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་སྐལ་བཟང་།།, and Tshul khrim skal bzaṅ. "A History of Logical Studies in Tibet (in Tibetan)." 名古屋大学印度学仏教学研究会, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/21033.
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Troughton, Thomas 1964. "Tibetan mind training : tradition and genre." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116035.
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In response to Tibetan social pressures in the 11th century, Atisa initiated a renewal of Buddhist monasticism that resulted in all Buddhist praxis outside of meditation being strictly framed by attitudes and behaviors informed by love and compassion. Atisa's teachings are exemplified in pithy sayings that point to the heart of bodhisattva practice, and this mind training practice developed into a tradition in the period immediately following his passing. The success of the method, and of the emulation of Atisa as exemplar of a perfect bodhisattva, led to the adoption of mind training throughout Tibetan Buddhism. "Tibetan Mind Training: Tradition and Genre" explains the relation between a native Tibetan literary genre and monastic Buddhist practice found in the 14th century compilation Mind Training: The Great Collection (theg pa chen po blo sbyong rgya tsa). The introduction provides context and presents methodology. Chapter one argues that 'blo sbyong' should be translated as 'mind training.' Chapter two has two broad arguments: a rebuttal of a conception of mind training as an essentially psychological preparation for other practices; and an explanation of its praxis as the interaction of mind and real objects. Chapter three explains the relation of mind training praxis and tradition, with reference to Atisa's reforms. Chapter four explains some characteristics of the literary genre of mind training.
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Myatt, Timothy Lloyd. "British, Chinese, and Tibetan representations of the Mission to Tibet of 1904." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0813dd24-e025-4d27-9d54-3620cca16d6b.
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This thesis presents and analyses Chinese, Tibetan, and British sources relating to the British Mission to Tibet of 1904. It balances accounts provided by the British officers and men with modern Chinese sources. It analyses both polarised sides of the history, whilst remaining critical of all sources. British historical accounts analysed in chapter one are balanced with Chinese narratives that present the Mission as an invasion of the Motherland and its unity. Chapter two examines the role of propaganda in modern China, and how different media are used to guide the Tibetan and Chinese populations’ understanding of their history and nation. Chapters three and four provide an original translation of Bod kyi rig gnas lo rgyus dpyad gzhi’i rgyu cha bdams bsgrigs, a textbook written from a Chinese nationalistic perspective. The introductory chapter providing the Chinese narrative of the build-up to the Mission is studied in chapter three, and chapter four analyses the bloody advance into Tibet. The translation and analysis in chapter five of the letters of the Dalai Lama to the King of Nepal, the Tongsa Pönlop, and the Chögyal of Sikkim place the Mission in pan-Himalayan context, and show how the Tibetan Government sought to counter the Mission. It is the first study to provide a historical Tibetan perspective of events. Chapter six analyses the divisive issue of looting during the Mission. It examines the psychology of those who looted Tibet, and the role the items taken play in shaping the image of Tibet in the West. Modern Chinese propaganda sources from the new media are analysed in chapter seven, and demonstrate how they have been used to compliment and propagate the established narrative. The conclusions analyse the impact of the Mission, and the lessons that may be learnt for those that play the ‘New Great Game.’
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Pritzker, David Thomas. "Canopy of everlasting joy : an early source in Tibetan historiography and the history of West Tibet." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f231f283-1711-4428-820d-0c2ccfa11f5f.
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A more descriptive title for the dissertation might be "Early historiography in Purang-Guge and its relationship between orality, kingship, and Tibetan identity: a close study of a recently uncovered 12th century historical manuscript from Tholing monastery in West Tibet." The present study is therefore a close textual analysis of all the outer and inner features of the Tholing Manuscript. When reading the text, there is the gradual realization that the archaic peculiarities in script, binding, spelling, vocabulary, prose, and narrative twists, all highlight the work as a wholly rare and different version from those early histories typically found in Central Tibet. The key difference lies primarily in the focal point of the narrative. Whereas most similar narratives from the time of the phyi dar (11th-13th centuries) onwards place at the core of their structure the history of Buddhism in Tibet, the Tholing text puts as its central focus kingship and the history of kings in Tibet. For this reason, while Buddhism plays an essential and integral part of the story as a whole, the text can be viewed as a more secular work then any comparable monastic history of the period. The narrative structure of the manuscript, with its heavy use of rhythmical prose, similes, archaic topoi and motifs, is hauntingly familiar to those parallel passages found among Old Tibetan Documents and is emblematic of the liminal period in which the text was written. At this time, histories were transitioning from disperse and possibly oral transmissions to predominantly formal organized written traditions. The poetic nature of the text, together with its unusual physical features, raises questions relating to its purpose and function, with the possibility of its use as a ritual manuscript for royal legitimization. Through a close study of the text, I offer some insights on the formative nature of early Tibetan historiography in establishing the sacred and political power of the kings of West Tibet.
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Murakami, Daisuke. "National imaginings, ethnic tourism and contested Tibetan identities in contemporary Lhasa, Tibet (PRC)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439748.
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Galli, Lucia Maria Sara. "The accidental pilgrimage of a rich beggar : the account of tshong dpon Kha stag 'Dzam yag's travels through Tibet, Nepal, and India (1944-1956)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:28e5ea72-794c-443e-b626-651a71a0974a.
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The Tibetan literary corpus offers a wide array of (auto)biographical accounts; Tibetans have been recollecting - and narrating - life stories in earnest since the "later diffusion" (Tib. phyi dar) of Buddhism in the 11th century. The hybrid essence of life writing, suspended between fact and fiction, finds a perfect expression in the text at the core of the present dissertation, i.e. the journal (Tib. nyin deb) of a 20th century Khams pa trader, Kha stag 'Dzam yag. The text records the events, travels, and impressions experienced by the author between 1944 and 1956; structured like a diary, this autodiegetic text, originally written in a scroll-paper format, was later edited and finally published in India in 1997. Two different heuristic devices, i.e. narratology and socio-economic analysis, are used in the present dissertation to analyse the structure and content of the nyin deb, as well as the author's idiosyncrasies emerging from the process of narrativisation. Whereas the narratological approach allows the identification of the interplay of memory, self, and culture in the socio-historical context of mid-20th century Tibet, the socio-economic analysis reflects on the nyin deb as a form of social history rather than personal narrative. The identification of "true", historical facts confirms the author's claims to factuality, thus providing unique information and insight regarding the political and economic role of Khams pa traders in 1940s-1950s Tibet, as well as the development of new pilgrimage rituals and the emergence of forms of "spiritual tourism" in modern India.
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Stevens, Rachael. "Red Tara : lineages of literature and practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:27381b38-c580-4d0b-b7d5-f87abcc50afd.
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Tārā is arguably the most popular goddess of the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. She is well known in her Green, White, and Twenty-one forms. However, the numerous red aspects of the divinity have long been overlooked in both popular and academic literature on the goddess. This thesis aims to redress this balance. This thesis presents the various manifestations of Red Tārā in the form of a survey of the literary and practice lineages of this goddess throughout Tibetan Buddhist history. The intention of the thesis is to examine individual forms of Red Tārā, excluding Kurukullā (who has received previous scholarly attention), in order to prove the hypothesis that not all Red Tārās are Kurukullā. The research has identified a preliminary historical order of Red Tārā lineages from the eleventh century works on Pītheśvarī and the Sa-skya-pa Red Tārās, through to the nineteenth and twentieth century forms of the goddess authored by the dGe-lugs-pas and A-paṃ gter-ston in the A-mdo region of Tibet. The red forms of Tārā are more 'worldly' than her Green or White incarnations, and the soteriological component of her worship is not always clear. Accordingly this allows a glimpse into the subjugating/ magnetising ritual process. The thesis comprises three sections. Section One provides a general introduction to Tārā and Kurukullā, followed by a survey of the literature pertaining to Red Tārā identified in the course of this research. Section Two takes four lineages of Red Tārā literature as its focus. Each chapter refers to an individual lineage: Pītheśvarī, Sa-skya-pa, the Twenty-one Tārās, and A-paṃ gter-ton's gter-ma cycle. Section Three deals with modern-day practice of the goddess in the Chagdud Gonpa Foundation and the Flaming Jewel Sangha. The thesis relies on translation of primary sources from the Tibetan language, participant observation, and New Religious Studies methodology, and covers a wide range of areas including subjugation rituals, iconography, body-maṇḍala rituals, the adoption of Buddhism in the West, and New Religious Movements. It adds to current knowledge in a variety of fields including ritual, goddess studies, the Tibetan pantheon and its iconography, and Buddhism in the West.
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Assis, Vinicius de [UNESP]. "Thangka: a pintura sagrada tibetana: tradição, história e método." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141973.
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O presente estudo intenta apresentar os princípios básicos, históricos e processuais, da pintura tradicional tibetana, thangka. Tal objetivo se justifica pela escassez de estudos em língua portuguesa sobre o assunto. Ainda que seja perceptível nos tempos atuais uma expansão dos estudos asiáticos no Brasil, em confluência com uma crescente aproximação e interesse pela cultura oriental na contemporaneidade; esta pesquisa, por meio de estudo de campo, levantamento bibliográfico e histórico, busca a investigação e exposição do profundo e específico âmbito do simbólico, sagrado e tradicional na pintura tibetana. Acreditando que o reconhecimento das artes e teorias estéticas não eurocêntricas corroboram a cognição e produção da inestimável diversidade cultural humana.
The following study intends to present the basic, historical and procedural principles of the traditional Tibetan painting, thangka. This objective is justified by the lack of studies in Portuguese on the subject. Although it is noticeable nowadays an expansion of Asian studies in Brazil, in confluence with a growing approach and interest in Eastern culture in contemporary society; this dissertation, by field research, literature and history, wishes to investigate, explain and expose the deep and specific scope of the symbolic, sacred and traditional in Tibetan painting. Believing that the recognition of the arts and non eurocentric aesthetic theories corroborate the cognition and production of the invaluable human cultural diversity.
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Matsushita, Emi. "Iconography of Mahākāla." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1141933891.
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Bergström, Kavita. "Hur bemöter man idag tibetanska flyktingbarn i Dharamsala?" Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1784.
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Detta arbete bygger på en studieresa, under en månads tid, till Indien, Dharamsala. Dharamsa-la är känd för att inhysa den tibetanska statens exilregering och inte minst den tibetanska bud-dismens andlige ledare Dalai Lama. Därav är Dharamsala en viktig tillflyktsort för de tibe-tanska flyktingar som undkommit den Kinesiska regeringens förtryck i Tibet.
Syftet med denna studie blir därför, att få mer insikt och kunskap om hur man idag i Dha-ramsala bemöter tibetanska flyktingbarn från Tibet.
Jag fick äran, att möta 8 av de människor som dagligen möter och arbetar med tibetanska flyktingbarn på ett eller annat sätt.
I undersökningen har jag dels använt mig av kvalitativa intervjuer och dels av observatio-ner. Genom dessa metoder framgår det, att tibetanska flyktingbarn blir bemötta på ett kärleks-fullt och respektfullt sätt. Detta för, att de skall få ett värdigt liv i frihet samt en gedigen ut-bildning.
Tibetanernas omtanke och kärlek till sin nästa generation motiverar barnen, i Dharamsala, att vilja studera, för att senare i livet ska kunna hjälpa andra tibetaner i nöd, vilka fortfarande är under den Kinesiska regeringens våld i Tibet.
This paper is a result of a one month field study Dharamsala in India. Dharamsala is well-known for harbouring the exile Tibetan government and also their religious leader in Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama. Because of this Dharamsala is an important sanctuary fore Tibetan refugees who are escaping from the Chinese government’s oppression in Tibet.
The purpose of this study is therefore to get a better insight and knowledge how people today in Dharamsala receive Tibetan refugee children from Tibet.
I got the privilege to meet 8 of the people who, in one way or another, daily meet and work with Tibetan refugee children.
In this study I have used the methods qualitative interview and observation. Through these methods it’s clear that, Tibetan refugee children are received with love and respect in Dhar-amsala. In this way the Tibetan refugee children got a worthy life in freedom and a proper education.
The love and compassion from the Tibetan people in Dharamsala, to their next generation, motivate these children to study hard so that they later in life can help other Tibetans who still live under the Chinese government’s oppression in Tibet.
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Verhagen, Pieter Cornelis. "Sanskrit grammatical literature in Tibet : a study of the Indo-Tibetan canonical literature on Sanskrit grammar and the development of Sanskrit studies in Tibet /." [Leiden?] : P. C. Verhagen, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35502127q.
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Daisley, Simon Francis Stirling. "Exorcising Luther: Confronting the demon of modernity in Tibetan Buddhism." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7329.
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This study explores the idea that the Western adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism is in fact a continuum of the Protestant Reformation. With its inhospitable terrain and volatile environment, the geography of Tibet has played an important role in its assimilation of Buddhism. Demons, ghosts and gods are a natural part of the Tibetan world. Yet why is it that Tibetan Buddhism often downplays these elements in its self portrayal to the West? Why are Westerners drawn to an idealistic view of Buddhism as being rational and free from belief in the supernatural when the reality is quite different? This thesis will show that in its encounter with Western modernity Tibetan Buddhism has had to reinvent itself in order to survive in a world where rituals and belief in deities are regarded as ignorant superstition. In doing so it will reveal that this reinvention of Buddhism is not a recent activity but one that has its origins in nineteenth century Protestant values. While the notion of Protestant Buddhism has been explored by previous scholars this thesis will show that rather than solving the problems of disenchantment, Buddhist Modernism ignores the human need to find meaning in and to take control over one’s surroundings. In doing so it will argue that rather than adopting a modern, crypto-Protestant form Buddhism, Westerners instead need to find a way to naturally transplant Tibetan Buddhism onto their own surroundings.
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Yang, Ho-Chin. "China's routes to Tibet during the early Qing Dynasty : a study of travel accounts /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11096.
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Hofer, T. "Tibetan medicine on the margins : twentieth century transformations of the traditions of Sowa Rigpa in central Tibet." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317749/.
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This thesis is an ethnography and situated history of Tibetan medical practitioners in Tsang and Shigatse Prefecture, Central Tibet. It analyses how as individuals and groups, Tibetan medical doctors – the so-called amchi – have adapted and transformed their medical practices and multiple traditions of the Tibetan Science of Healing, or Sowa Rigpa. The principal argument is that amchi in the area studied have, at times and in certain places, held considerable agency in processes of transforming their traditions. This is despite and because of the ongoing Communist reforms, campaigns and structural changes enacted within the wider domains of health care provision and Tibetan medicine. Based on my research, I am able to articulate more clearly the role of individual amchi, their patients and other individuals and social groups, in shaping and adapting aspects of Tibetan medical practice. A central claim is that amchi participated and creatively used (and, in some cases, resisted and circumvented) the structures and policies employed by the state to administer provision of health care and reconfigure parts of Tibetan medical theory and practice. So far our understanding of Tibetan medicine during the 20th century has been largely limited to the history and contemporary work of central (Lhasa-based) government institutions of Tibetan medicine, notably the Mentsikhang and the Chakpori, and the practitioners associated with them. The fresh insights gained from my work with more marginal amchi – in private clinics, at home, in government hospitals and clinics, at monasteries – and also with members of international NGOs, allow us to discern more clearly what I call temporalities and socio-political geographies of amchi agency, which play a significant role in passing on and shaping dynamic Tibetan medical traditions. As the practices of the study population reflect, it is due to the efforts of those who were able to negotiate and preserve their medical work, as well as continue to innovate and adapt it, that multiple Tibetan medical traditions continue to exist in Tibet today.
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Meno, Michelle Elizabeth. "THE TRANSFORMATION OF TIBETAN ARTISTS' IDENTITIES FROM 1959-PRESENT DAY." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1355338370.
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Raney, Shonali. "The endangered lives of women : peace and mental health among Tibetan refugees." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1389689.
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This study explored how Tibetan refugee women have coped with the possible trauma they experienced in Tibet and when escaping from Tibet. It also examined how these women envisioned peace between Tibet and China and what meanings they constructed about the violence they may have experienced.Twelve Tibetan refugee women were interviewed in New York City. They came from all three regions of Tibet and their mean age was 35.5 years old. Only two participants were fluent in English. A qualitative semi-structured interview was employed to understand participants' unique experiences with past trauma and any continued repercussions. The interviews also assessed how participants envisioned peace between China and Tibet and if they believed peace was at all possible. An interpreter assisted with all the interviews.The data were analyzed using grounded theory methodology; with the help of two research assistants. This methodology offered the best opportunity to investigate the participants' understandings of their experiences and their beliefs. Using the constant comparative method, the results revealed the role of participants' religion, their belief in karma, and communal support as keys in their adjustment and mental health. Additionally, the women reported feelings of loss, fear, and loneliness, but not anger or hostility. The participants also revealed, however, feelings of relief and safety leaving the threat of imprisonment or torture behind in Tibet. Further, the women expressed feelings of appreciation for their freedom and their ability to hope for a better future for themselves and their families.The results suggested that there are some specific cultural variables that helped these Tibetan refugee women navigate the course of leaving Tibet and moving to a new country. Additional studies are needed to more fully comprehend the effects of trauma on the migration of Tibetan refugee women. Such studies can help further explain the relationship between trauma and culture-bound expressions of distress. Other implications (e.g., provision of services) of the current findings are discussed, as are several limitations to the study.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Assis, Vinicius de 1984. "Thangka : a pintura sagrada tibetana: tradição, história e método /." São Paulo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141973.
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Resumo: O presente estudo intenta apresentar os princípios básicos, históricos e processuais, da pintura tradicional tibetana, thangka. Tal objetivo se justifica pela escassez de estudos em língua portuguesa sobre o assunto. Ainda que seja perceptível nos tempos atuais uma expansão dos estudos asiáticos no Brasil, em confluência com uma crescente aproximação e interesse pela cultura oriental na contemporaneidade; esta pesquisa, por meio de estudo de campo, levantamento bibliográfico e histórico, busca a investigação e exposição do profundo e específico âmbito do simbólico, sagrado e tradicional na pintura tibetana. Acreditando que o reconhecimento das artes e teorias estéticas não eurocêntricas corroboram a cognição e produção da inestimável diversidade cultural humana.
Abstract: The following study intends to present the basic, historical and procedural principles of the traditional Tibetan painting, thangka. This objective is justified by the lack of studies in Portuguese on the subject. Although it is noticeable nowadays an expansion of Asian studies in Brazil, in confluence with a growing approach and interest in Eastern culture in contemporary society; this dissertation, by field research, literature and history, wishes to investigate, explain and expose the deep and specific scope of the symbolic, sacred and traditional in Tibetan painting. Believing that the recognition of the arts and non eurocentric aesthetic theories corroborate the cognition and production of the invaluable human cultural diversity.
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Lu, Xuan. "La question tibétaine et ses deux principales solutions depuis les années 1980." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040214.
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Cette thèse est consacrée à l’étude de la question tibétaine et des différents aspects sous lesquels elle est traitée : géographique, économiques, stratégiques et politiques. Nous étudions l’évolution des attitudes et les divergences d’opinion selon une polarisation allant du conservatisme au progressisme. Nous en mesurons les influences dans l’histoire récente et nous projetons les développements probables à court et moyen termes.- Cette thèse s’attache à démontrer que le Tibet reste un enjeu important pour la Chine et qu’à ce titre, la ligne de chemin de fer reliant le Qinghai au Tibet symbolise la politique et la solution chinoise vis-à-vis du Tibet. - Cette thèse s’attache à démontrer que le dalaï-lama est toujours considéré par les tibétains comme la seule instance à même de pouvoir résoudre les problèmes tibétains, et ceci en dépit des nombreuses crises auxquelles le chef spirituel a pu être confronté.- Enfin, cette thèse s’attache à démontrer que la société chinoise est en train d’évoluer vers une attitude plus progressiste. Sur cette question notamment, les intellectuels chinois ont acquis davantage d’influence que par le passé, influence qui pourrait, à l’avenir, se développer davantage. Ce travail, relevant d’un champ d’analyse pluridisciplinaire, couvre l’essentiel du XXème siècle et de l’époque actuelle. Il se focalise particulièrement sur la période postérieure aux années 1980, qui a été le témoin d’une internalisation plus poussée de la question tibétaineThis thesis focuses on the Tibetan issue in its various aspects: geographic, economic, strategic and political. We examine the evolution of attitudes and differences of opinion according to their polarization ranging from conservatism to progressivism. We assess their influences in recent history and we project the likely developments in the near future.- This thesis aims at showing that Tibet remains an important matter at stake for China. Hence the Qinghai-Tibet rail link embodies the Chinese national policy as well as the Chinese solution vis-à-vis Tibet.- This thesis aims at demonstrating that the Dalai Lama is still regarded by Tibetans as the key to the resolution of Tibetan problems despite the many crises the spiritual leader has had to face.- Finally this thesis aims at pointing out that the Chinese society is evolving towards a more progressive attitude. On this issue Chinese intellectuals have acquired more influence than before and this influence could develop even further in the future. This work belongs to an inter-disciplinary field of study and covers most of the 20th century and present times. It focuses especially on the post 1980’s period when the Tibetan issue became more international
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Oidtmann, Max Gordon. "Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, 1792-1911." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11276.
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In the late eighteenth century, a Qing-centered, pluralistic legal order emerged in the Tibetan regions of the Qing empire. In the Gansu borderlands known to Tibetans as "Amdo," the Qing state established subprefectures to administer indigenous populations and prepare them for integration into the empire. In the 1790s, the Qianlong emperor asserted the dynasty's sovereignty in central Tibet and embarked on a program to reform the Tibetan government. This dissertation examines the nineteenth-century legacy of these policies from the twin perspectives of the indigenous people of the region and the officials dispatched to manage them. On the basis of Manchu and Tibetan-language sources, Part One argues that the exercise of Qing sovereignty in central Tibet was connected to the Qianlong court's desire to monopolize indigenous arts of divination, especially as they related to the identification of prominent reincarnations. The Qing court exported a Ming-era bureaucratic technology--a lottery, and repurposed it as a divination technology--the Golden Urn. The successful implementation of this new ritual, however, hinged on the astute use of legal cases and the intervention of Tibetan Buddhist elites, who found a home for the Urn within indigenous traditions.East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Chapman, James B., and Paul Kapp. "Tibetan Magmatism Database." AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626432.
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A database containing previously published geochronologic, geochemical, and isotopic data on Mesozoic to Quaternary igneous rocks in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogenic system are presented. The database is intended to serve as a repository for new and existing igneous rock data and is publicly accessible through a web-based platform that includes an interactive map and data table interface with search, filtering, and download options. To illustrate the utility of the database, the age, location, and Hf-t composition of magmatism from the central Gangdese batholith in the southern Lhasa terrane are compared. The data identify three high-flux events, which peak at 93, 50, and 15 Ma. They are characterized by inboard arc migration and a temporal and spatial shift to more evolved isotopic compositions. Plain Language Summary A new database with a web-based interface is presented that contains compiled geochronologic, geochemical, and isotopic data on igneous rocks in the Himalaya-Tibetan orogen.
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Saxer, Martin. "Manufacturing Tibetan medicine." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527370.
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Santu, Lama Linda <1994>. "Neither Japanese nor Tibetan: identity negotiation of Tibetan youth in Japan." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16863.
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There are approximately 200 Tibetan immigrants in Japan, mostly exchange students who came from either Tibet or India. Being not recognized by the international society, Tibetans in diaspora found themselves in a liminal space labeled as “foreigner” and have been trying to construct a Tibetan “imagined community”, while adapting to the host-country. Drawing the inspiration of the present ethnographic study from my personal experience, growing up as the daughter of Italian and Tibetan parents in Italy, I attempted to understand how Tibetan youth living in Japan, a country fostering cultural homogeneity, negotiate their sense of belonging. The research will investigate the spaces of “Tibetan-ness” in Japan, and then analyze, through a post-modern theoretical framework, Tibetan youth’s response to intercultural influence, by exploring how multiple identities are (re)produced and negotiated. Furthermore, I will mark a distinction between first and second generations, with particular mention to the “in-betweenness” of Tibetan-Japanese mixed cultural heritage students. The fieldwork I conducted in the area of Tokyo, between April and October 2019, shows how the notion of “Tibetan-ness” itself can be undermined, revealing the existence of a dynamic and creative narrative at the local level - what Maher calls a “subcultural capital”- which differs from national level discourses on ethnic homogeneity, and promises new generations a more inclusive society to live in.
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Cyr, Andrew J. "GEOCHEMICAL AND STABLE ISOTOPIC EVALUATION OF FENGHUOSHAN GROUP LACUSTRINE CARBONATES, NORTH-CENTRAL TIBET: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOALTIMETRY OF THE MID-TERTIARY TIBETAN PLATEAU." Connect to this document online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1080329128.
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Thesis (Master of Science)--Miami University, Dept. of Geology, 2004.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], v, 76 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-50).
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Ambraška, Laurynas. "Tibeto tarptautinis teisinis statusas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20110124_131643-05319.
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Darbe analizuojamas Tibeto tarptautinis teisinis statusas iki lemiamo 1949 m. konflikto su Kinija bei situacija po konflikto. Autorius trumpai apžvelgia Tibeto valstybingumo istoriją bei Tibeto tarptautinio teisinio statuso kaitą ir su tuos susijusius tarptautinius dokumentus, pagrindžia padarytas prielaidas ir hipotezes tarptautinės teisės doktrina. Taip pat nagrinėjamas Tibeto suvereniteto klausimas, sąlygos ir reali situacija.
Darbe taip pat atskleidžiama, kada ir kaip valstybė praranda ar įgyja nepriklausomybę, taip pat nepriklausomybės reikšmė valstybės egzistavimui, konkrečiu Tibeto atveju. Taip pat teorinės ir konkrečiai Tibeto valstybės tęstinumo ir identiteto nustatymo problemos. Autorius taip pat vadovaujasi pagrindiniais tarptautinės teisės dokumentais, siekdamas pagrįsti dvi versijas apie Tibeto tarptautinį teisinį statusą bei tarptautinės bendruomenės poziciją ir veiksmų stoką šiuo konkrečiu bei panašiais atvejais.
Autorius bando atsakyti ir į pačias svarbiausias problemas, nustatant Tibeto tarptautinį teisinį statusą. Jos yra politinės ir teisinės. Tibeto teisinio statuso dvilypumas yra aktuali problema iki šios dienos. Taigi situacijos sudėtingumas, nevienareikšmiškumas, tarptautinės bendruomenės nevieningumas ir konkrečios pozicijos nebuvimas sąlygoja, kad Tibeto tarptautinis teisinis statusas išlieka dvilypis ir realus statusas neatitinka to, kuris turėtų būti vadovaujantis tarptautinės teisės normomis. Autorius padaro išvadą, kad šios situacijos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]This study analyses the most important international legal status questions concerning Tibet and the Peoples Republic of China prior to 1949 m. invasion and the aftermath. The author takes a brief look at the international legal status of Tibet prior to the formentioned invasion and a diligent study of the most important periods of the historical development of Tibet and its international status, through analysing the most important international treaties, legal doctrine and other documents. Also the author acknowledges the current struggle of Tibet and it‘s people to regain independance or at least a workable, suitable for tibetans and legitimate autonomous status. The author also tries to take in account the actions and passiveness of international community and United Nations organization concering this issue. In this study it is shown, that the international community doesn‘t acknowledge the invasion of Tibet as opposing to the international laws and principles, however no real action is taken, therefore leaving the status of Tibet a very delicate matter where all possibilities have to be considered. Author is aiming to define the current situation in the world policy on the matter of Tibet, also the legal and current issues of Tibetan sovereignity, proving that the nation of Tibet is still in full sovereignity and is being occupied only in territorial conflict. Some of the most valid current problems of the legal status of Tobet are also discussed by the... [to full text]
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Arruda, Felipe Andrade. "O Lótus Branco Imaculado: estudo e tradução de um texto de Sera Khandro (1892-1940) da tradição terma de Padmasambhava." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2018. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6946.
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O presente projeto tem como objetivo traduzir e analisar a hagiografia de Guru Padmasambhava (este tido como o introdutor dos ensinamentos budistas no Tibete no século VIII) intitulada O Lótus Branco Imaculado: Vida e Liberação de Oḍḍiyāna (Wyl. o rgyan rnam thar dri med padma dkar po), de autoria da mestra e “reveladora de tesouros” (Wyl. gter ston) tibetana Sera Khandro (Wyl. se ra mkha’ ‘gro, 1892-1940), utilizando metodologias de análise particulares à tradição dos tesouros Terma (Wyl. gter ma), iniciada por Padmasambhava, tendo como referência o estilo e a abordagem da própria Sera Khandro e o tratado O Lótus Branco (Wyl. padma dkar po), de Jamgön Mipham Gyatso (Wyl. ‘jam mgon mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846-1912).
The present work aims to translate and analize the hagiography of Guru Padmasambhava (known as the introducer of the Buddhist teachings in Tibet during the eighth century) entitled The Immaculate White Lotus: Life and Liberation of Oḍḍiyāna (Wyl. o rgyan rnam thar dri med padma dkar po), written by the Tibetan female master and “treasure revealer” (Wyl. gter ston) Sera Khandro (Wyl. se ra mkha’ ‘gro, 1892-1940), using analytical methodologies particular to the Terma (Wyl. gter ma) treasure tradition, initiated by Padmasambhava, having as reference Sera Khandro’s own style and approach and Jamgön Mipham Gyatso’s (Wyl. ‘jam mgon mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846-1912) treatise The White Lotus (Wyl. padma dkar po).
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Cruz, Bruna Dutra de Oliveira Soalheiro. "Política e retórica: estratégias de conversão nas missões jesuítas do Mogol, Tibete e Bengala (XVI-XVIII)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-07112014-190017/.
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Esta tese tem como objetivo a análise de fontes escritas nos contextos das missões jesuítas estabelecidas na corte mogol e no Tibete. Abordamos também a presença da Ordem em Bengala, tecendo relações entre esse espaço e as missões supracitadas. Nosso recorte cronológico cobre o período de 1570 até 1721, isto é, iniciamos nossas investigações na década que antecede o estabelecimento dos religiosos na corte de Akbar, e encerramos nossas análises no ano em que Ippolito Desideri deixa Lhasa. Concentramo-nos principalmente na questão da necessária relação entre as estratégias de conversão adotadas nessas missões e a (re) elaboração de categorias que indicassem e respaldassem o diálogo, a persuasão e o convencimento como os mais prudentes métodos catequéticosIn this thesis, we aim to analyze written sources produced by jesuits stablished at the Mughal court and in Tibet. We shall also approach the presence of the Order in Bengal, weaving relations between this space and the aforementioned missions. Our chronological limits concerns the period from 1570 to 1721, i.e., we began our investigations in the decade preceding the establishment of the jesuits in Akbars court, and resume our survey in Ippolito Desideris last year in Lhasa. We focus mainly on the necessary relationship between the conversion strategies adopted in these missions and the (re) elaboration of categories that indicate dialogue and persuasion as the most prudent catechetical method
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Aichner, Bernhard. "Aquatic macrophyte-derived biomarkers as palaeolimnological proxies on the Tibetan Plateau." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2009. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4209/.
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The Tibetan Plateau is the largest elevated landmass in the world and profoundly influences atmospheric circulation patterns such as the Asian monsoon system. Therefore this area has been increasingly in focus of palaeoenvironmental studies. This thesis evaluates the applicability of organic biomarkers for palaeolimnological purposes on the Tibetan Plateau with a focus on aquatic macrophyte-derived biomarkers. Submerged aquatic macrophytes have to be considered to significantly influence the sediment organic matter due to their high abundance in many Tibetan lakes. They can show highly 13C-enriched biomass because of their carbon metabolism and it is therefore crucial for the interpretation of δ13C values in sediment cores to understand to which extent aquatic macrophytes contribute to the isotopic signal of the sediments in Tibetan lakes and in which way variations can be explained in a palaeolimnological context. Additionally, the high abundance of macrophytes makes them interesting as potential recorders of lake water δD. Hydrogen isotope analysis of biomarkers is a rapidly evolving field to reconstruct past hydrological conditions and therefore of special relevance on the Tibetan Plateau due to the direct linkage between variations of monsoon intensity and changes in regional precipitation / evaporation balances.
A set of surface sediment and aquatic macrophyte samples from the central and eastern Tibetan Plateau was analysed for composition as well as carbon and hydrogen isotopes of n-alkanes. It was shown how variable δ13C values of bulk organic matter and leaf lipids can be in submerged macrophytes even of a single species and how strongly these parameters are affected by them in corresponding sediments. The estimated contribution of the macrophytes by means of a binary isotopic model was calculated to be up to 60% (mean: 40%) to total organic carbon and up to 100% (mean: 66%) to mid-chain n-alkanes. Hydrogen isotopes of n-alkanes turned out to record δD of meteoric water of the summer precipitation. The apparent enrichment factor between water and n-alkanes was in range of previously reported ones (≈-130‰) at the most humid sites, but smaller (average: -86‰) at sites with a negative moisture budget. This indicates an influence of evaporation and evapotranspiration on δD of source water for aquatic and terrestrial plants. The offset between δD of mid- and long-chain n-alkanes was close to zero in most of the samples, suggesting that lake water as well as soil and leaf water are affected to a similar extent by those effects.
To apply biomarkers in a palaeolimnological context, the aliphatic biomarker fraction of a sediment core from Lake Koucha (34.0° N; 97.2° E; eastern Tibetan Plateau) was analysed for concentrations, δ13C and δD values of compounds. Before ca. 8 cal ka BP, the lake was dominated by aquatic macrophyte-derived mid-chain n-alkanes, while after 6 cal ka BP high concentrations of a C20 highly branched isoprenoid compound indicate a predominance of phytoplankton. Those two principally different states of the lake were linked by a transition period with high abundances of microbial biomarkers. δ13C values were relatively constant for long-chain n-alkanes, while mid-chain n-alkanes showed variations between -23.5 to -12.6‰. Highest values were observed for the assumed period of maximum macrophyte growth during the late glacial and for the phytoplankton maximum during the middle and late Holocene. Therefore, the enriched values were interpreted to be caused by carbon limitation which in turn was induced by high macrophyte and primary productivity, respectively. Hydrogen isotope signatures of mid-chain n-alkanes have been shown to be able to track a previously deduced episode of reduced moisture availability between ca. 10 and 7 cal ka BP, indicated by a 20‰ shift towards higher δD values. Indications for cooler episodes at 6.0, 3.1 and 1.8 cal ka BP were gained from drops of biomarker concentrations, especially microbial-derived hopanoids, and from coincidental shifts towards lower δ13C values. Those episodes correspond well with cool events reported from other locations on the Tibetan Plateau as well as in the Northern Hemisphere.
To conclude, the study of recent sediments and plants improved the understanding of factors affecting the composition and isotopic signatures of aliphatic biomarkers in sediments. Concentrations and isotopic signatures of the biomarkers in Lake Koucha could be interpreted in a palaeolimnological context and contribute to the knowledge about the history of the lake. Aquatic macrophyte-derived mid-chain n-alkanes were especially useful, due to their high abundance in many Tibetan Lakes and their ability to record major changes of lake productivity and palaeo-hydrological conditions. Therefore, they have the potential to contribute to a fuller understanding of past climate variability in this key region for atmospheric circulation systems.Das tibetische Hochplateau ist die größte gehobene Landmasse der Erde und beeinflusst maßgeblich atmosphärische Zirkulationsmuster wie den Asiatischen Monsun. Um die Auswirkungen zukünftiger Schwankungen der Monsundynamik auf das regionale Klima besser einschätzen zu können, ist es wichtig, ein fundiertes Verständnis vergangener Klimaänderungen zu entwickeln. Daher ist das Tibetplateau in den letzten Jahren mehr und mehr in den Fokus paläoklimatischer Studien gerückt. Die große Anzahl an Seen in der Region bietet ein unerschöpfliches Klimaarchiv und viele Studien haben sich bereits mit Seesedimenten zur Klimarekonstruktion befasst. Dabei wurde in erster Linie auf biologische, sedimentologische und geochemische Parameter zurückgegriffen, wohingegen organische Biomarker bisher recht selten benutzt wurden. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Anwendbarkeit dieser potentiellen Klimaindikatoren auf dem Tibetplateau. Hierbei wurde ein Schwerpunkt auf die Analyse kutikularer Blattwachse von Wasserpflanzen gelegt, da diese wegen ihres starken Auftretens in tibetischen Seen einen erheblichen Beitrag zur organischen Substanz im Sediment leisten. Um den Einfluss von Wasserpflanzen auf das Sediment über einen weiten klimatischen Gradienten zu untersuchen, wurden Oberflächensedimente und Wasserpflanzen vom zentralen und östlichen Tibetplateau auf ihre Biomarkerzusammensetzung sowie auf ihre Kohlen- und Wasserstoffisotopensignatur untersucht. Dadurch wurde das Verständnis über beeinflussende Faktoren auf diese Parameter in Sedimenten vertieft. In einem Sedimentbohrkern des Koucha-Sees (östliches Tibetplateau) konnten diese Parameter dann im Hinblick auf Änderungen der Produktivität im See sowie der hydrologischen und klimatischen Bedingungen der letzten 15000 Jahre interpretiert werden. Es zeigte sich, dass der See bis 8000 Jahre vor Heute stark mit Wasserpflanzen bewachsen war, während die letzten 6000 Jahre Algen dominierten. Mit Hilfe von Wasserstoffisotopen wurden eine Zunahme des Monsuns und steigende Niederschläge zwischen 15000 und 10000 Jahren vor Heute sowie eine relativ trockene Periode zwischen 10000 und 7000 Jahren vor Heute rekonstruiert. Durch Kombination von Biomarkerkonzentrationen sowie deren Kohlenstoffisotopensignal wurden außerdem kurzzeitige Kälteperioden um ca. 6000, 3100 und 1800 Jahren vor Heute nachgewiesen, die vorher bereits in anderen Klimaarchiven in Tibet sowie auf der nördlichen Hemisphäre belegt wurden. Mit Hilfe von organischen Biomarkern konnte so ein detailliertes Bild über die Entwicklung des Koucha-Sees seit dem letzten Glazial gewonnen werden. Organische Biomarker haben sich somit als geeignet erwiesen, einen Beitrag zur Klimarekonstruktion auf dem Tibetplateau zu leisten.
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Smith, Alexander. "lDe’u ‘phrul, the manifestation of knowledge : ethnophilological studies in Tibetan divination with particular emphasis upon a common form of Bon lithomancy." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4092/document.
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Bien que j’envisage de couvrir une variété de pratiques divinatoires, je me concentre surtout dans ma thèse sur un type particulier de divination par les pierres pratiquée par les Bonpos tibétains. Cette forme de divination, parfois traduite par « Manifestation de Connaissance » (lde’u ’phrul), possède une tradition textuelle presque vierge qui, d’après les histoires Bon, remonte au 11ème siècle. En plus de terrains effectués en divers lieux de l’Himachal Pradesh et de l’Uttaranchal Pradesh, ma présentation du lde’u ’phrul est enrichie de la traduction de plusieurs manuscrits sur la lithomancie encore jamais étudiés. Je me concentre notamment sur le sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba’i me long, composé par Kun grol grags pa, un œcuméniste et historien du 18ème siècle. Certains points de ce texte sont comparés à deux commentaires plus tardifs traitant de la lithomancie : (1) le Ma sangs ’phrul gyi rdel mo mngon shes rno gsal gyi sgron me, écrit par Slob dpon mKhas grub Lung rtogs rgya mtsho, premier précepteur du monastère de Yung drung gLing au Tibet Central ; et le (2) sMra seng ’phrul gyi rdel mo mngon shes gsal ba’i sgron po, version datant du 19ème siècle d’un gter ma censé avoir été découvert au 11ème siècle par le « découvreur de trésors » (gter ston) Khro tshang ’brug lha. Lors de l’utilisation de ces matériaux, j’adopte une approche herméneutique large, qui ne restreint pas la critique au manuscrit étudié mais cherche à incorporer les performances contemporaines de lde’u ’phrul, et en particulier la perspective unique du devin sur sa performanceThough I intend to survey a variety of divination practices, my thesis focuses upon a particular type of pebble divination performed by Tibetan Bonpos. This form of divination, which is known as "Manifestation of Knowledge" (lde'u 'phrul), possesses a nearly unstudied textual tradition that, according to Bon histories, originates in the eleventh century. In addition to fieldwork conducted in various locations in Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal Pradesh, my discussion of lde' u 'phrul is supplemented by the translation of a number of previously unstudied lithomantic manuscripts. Chiefly, I focus upon the sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba'i me long, written by the 18th century ecumenicist and historian Kun grol grags pa. Certain aspects of this work will also be read against two later commentaries on the subject of lithomancy: (1) the Ma sangs 'phrul gyi rdel mo mngon shes rno gsal gyi sgron me, written by Slob dpon mKhas grub Lung rtogs rgya mtsho, the first preceptor of Yung drung gLing Monastery in Central Tibet; and (2) the sMra seng 'phrul gyi rdel mo mngon shes gsal ba'i sgron po, a 19th century witness of an alleged 11th century gter ma discovery attributed to the Bon "treasure revealer" (gter ston) Khro tshang 'brug lha. In using these materials, I adopt a broad view of hermeneutics, which does not restrict criticism to the manuscripts that I study, but also seeks to incorporate the contemporary performance of lDe'u 'phrul and, in particular, the diviner's unique perspective on the performance of divination into my textual critique
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Davies, Andrew Daniel. "Networks of Transitional Tibetan Politics." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507455.
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Huang, Chun Yuan. "A Record of a Tibetan Medieval Debate: History, Language, and Efficacy of Tibetan Buddhist Debate." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11432.
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This dissertation is intended to serve as a thorough examination of a particular debate between Lho pa Thugs rje dpal and Rong ston Shakya rgyal mtshan (1367-1449). According to the colophon of this medieval Tibetan debate record, which also appears to be the only currently surviving medieval Tibetan debate record in Tibetan literature, this debate took place in Sa skya and was recorded by both debaters' disciples without bias. The date of this debate was sometime between 1388 and 1393 during Rong ston's first visit to the Gtsang area.
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Robson, Elaine M. "A Christian catechism in Tibetan : an English translation and study of Ippolito Desideri's Tibetan manuscript." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665461.
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This thesis is a translation and study of the Italian Jesuit, Ippolito Desideri's Tibetan manuscript The Essence of the Christian Faith which he wrote towards the end of his five year stay in Tibet (1716-1721). It is the first of his Tibetan works to be translated into English. Desideri's intention in writing was twofold: Firstly, to explain to Tibetan Buddhist readers why their denial of an intrinsically existent God (rang grub dkon mchog) leads to nihilism. Secondly, he wrote to express in the Tibetan language (in the form of a catechism) something of the nature and character of the triune God, and why belief in him does not destroy the Buddhist understanding of 'emptiness', but in fact enhances it. In Desideri's introduction he explains why he considers the Tibetan Buddhist dGe lugs presentation of 'emptiness' to be flawed. He disagrees with their asseliion that all things are beginngless and are mere mentally fabricated constructs which are dependent on their 'basis of designation'. Desideri considers that the existence of the Independent, who is external to the inter-dependent, explains the existence of the inter-dependent; whereas the denial of the Independent leads to the denial of everything. Desideri describes God as the all pervading and compassionate One who sent his Son to liberate people from that which causes them to be shackled and which only perpetuates their 'ignorance' . Drawing on many highly contextualised illustrations, he presents the main doctrines of the Christian Faith in a way that a Tibetan reader who was hearing about Christianity for the first time could relate to. Desideri sought to reassure his readers the acceptance of the biblical God who necessarily exists intrinsically would not destroy, but would in fact enhance, the dGe lugs understanding of 'emptiness' and thereby remove the 'fall into nihilism'.
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Bridges, Alex Wallace. "Two Monasteries in Ladakh: Religiosity and the Social Environment in Tibetan Buddhism." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491502573183253.
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Martin, Emma. "Charles Bell's collection of 'curios' : negotiating Tibetan material culture on the Anglo-Tibetan borderlands (1900-1945)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2014. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20328/.
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Charles Bell (1870-1945) the diplomat, Tibetologist and writer continues to be one of the most recognizable names from the Anglo-Tibetan encounter that played out in the Himalayan borderlands of the early twentieth century. Not only did he write a series of authoritative books on Tibet, but he considered himself a personal friend of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. Less well known are his collecting activities. Therefore this thesis will, for the most part, step away from his diplomatic achievements focussing instead on a rethinking of Bell, his curios and the spaces that they occupied. A new material perspective will be presented that will question not only how Charles Bell became knowledgeable about Tibet, but also what agencies and agendas informed his collecting practices. Furthermore, it will become clear just how highly politicised Tibetan objects could become during a turbulent period in modern Tibetan history.
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Byłów-Antkowiak, Katarzyna. "'Others before self' : Tibetan pedagogy and childrearing in a Tibetan children's village in the Indian Himalaya." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11352.
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This anthropological study examines ontogeny of ideas about self and others and approaches human capacity for intersubjectivity as emergent in the course of life, by looking at how it is shaped through mediation of the world by others and by processes at the group level. The empirical focus is the ecology of concepts used by Tibetan children and adults in their daily life in a Tibetan residential school in India, where people's conduct and children's upbringing and schooling are informed by the Tibetan and Buddhist models and theories of self, mind, learning, causation and history. The aim of this study is to identify - through a close ethnographic description and analysis - the core aspects of learning as conceptualized and lived experience within contemporary Tibetan Buddhist education system, derived from one of the oldest wisdom traditions in the world and crystallizing within a modern nation-state Asia. Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) was one of the first Tibetan school networks aiming to provide formal lay education for children that sprang up in exile following the fourteenth Dalai Lama's flight to India in 1959. Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical and methodological aspects of the study and sets forth the research agenda that shaped the study design and kinds of engagement that were possible with the study participants and the field. A short description of the geographical and climate conditions in the field site is complemented by a snapshot of the social topography of the direct neighbourhood of the school, where fieldwork was conducted over 11 months (February – December) in 2013 and 3 months (June – September) in 2014. A brief review of debates and sources from different bodies of anthropological literature bearing on the ethnographic material has been added to clarify the orientation of the analysis and the research findings. Chapter 2 explores the phenomenon of Tibetan lay education in exile and the concept of education that developed as a result of a shift from monastic centres of learning towards contemporary Tibetan lay schools in India. Through an ethnographic exploration of the theoretical model of learning and pedagogical devices such as Tibetan debate, the chapter shows the mind as the locus of schooling practices. It also demonstrates how, through daily ritual practices and debate, this becomes a lived experience in a contemporary Tibetan school in the Indian Himalaya. The chapter discusses ethnographic categories of mind, mind stream and mental karmic imprints, based on interviews focusing on the Tibetan policy document detailing education strategy and goals. These are shown to be informed by Tibetan Buddhist theory of learning and an understanding of the inner subjective experience as the source of knowing. To contextualize the understanding of mind in a contemporary Tibetan school in India, the chapter provides an ethnographic description and analysis of the Tibetan dialectical debate (riglam) classes in TCV. Riglam is an ancient debating tradition developed in India and preserved and further developed in Tibet and Tibetan monasteries and now also in schools in exile. Chapter 3 is an exploration of the ethnographic category of ‘history' in the school. ‘History' is shown to emerge out of the continuum of time – the un-tensed present. Drawing on the notion of the mind imprints, patterning and habituation, and the imagery of the seed, coming ‘alive' and bearing fruit in the right circumstances, the chapter describes how the making of ‘history' is inscribed in the bodies of TCV inhabitants through daily bodily practices - bodily discipline, or conduct (chöpa). Chapter 4 focuses on TCV as a place and on the embeddedness of TCV within other places. Through the discussion of the use of space and space-enabled operations, such as e.g. spatio-temporally co-located sport games, the chapter outlines conceptualisation of a TCV-place as expressed through the idioms of ‘floating' and ‘going out of bounds'. This also leads to a discussion of transgressions involving the use of electronic devices, tattoos and hairstyles, leaving school, and the discourse and practices around the concept of ‘pure Tibetans'. The ethnographic material highlighting an ontogenesis of space opens the way to discuss the embodied practice of interdependence among TCV inhabitants, the practice that challenges the usefulness of analytical categories of ‘inside' and ‘outside' for an anthropological analysis of the experience of growing up and living in TCV. Chapters 5 and 6 look closely at the idea of others being essential in the ontogenesis of beings. Chapter 5 is based on examples of teasing and games that involve directing attention of infants and children to other people, and bringing other people's ‘gaze' (seeing you) to bear on the decisions made for self. In this way it draws an outline of a particular kind of pedagogic effort directed at infants and toddlers, and traces this pedagogy in other, later stages of the schooling experience in TCV. Chapter 6 focuses specifically on grammatical constructions that seemed to be salient in the interactions between TCV inhabitants (adults and children). These included: 1) addresseebound verb use, and, specifically, I-for-you inversion in questions; 2) the use of honorific forms for others (multiplicity and gradation of terms) and its proscription for self-referential statements; 3) evidentiality markers denoting direct or indirect experience and the salience of personal connection to the subject/object/action. Such ethnographic exploration of the perspective inversion in everyday language use and everyday interactions leads to the review of some tacit assumptions about the ‘subject' in subjectivity and intersubjectivity used as heuristic devices. The chapter also explores the utility, feasibility and implications of including the dialogical dimension of being in the anthropological inquiry. The conclusion of the thesis focuses on the question of intersubjectivity not as given, but as ‘teased out' and formed through practices involving both the constitution of self and the simultaneous and inevitable constitution of others. It also posits the necessity of ethnographic exploration of different practices that might be involved in bringing forth intersubjectivity, and questions about the resulting ‘intersubjectivities'. Discussion of different aspects of the experience of living and growing up in a TCV campus developed in the previous chapters, i.e. the theory of learning and understanding of “mind”, inner subjective experience and karmic imprints; discipline and temporal frameworks predicated on the ideas of karmic causation; dependent arising; training of awareness, attention and ethical judgement and the ideas of self, leads to a particular reading of the TCV slogan “Others Before Self”. The analysis, which starts with an exploration of the ideology of education expressed through a policy document building upon particular Buddhist premises, is thus brought full circle, with lived Buddhist experience animating the ubiquitous TCV formula for a human being.
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Diehl, Keila. "Echoes from Dharamsala : music in the lives of Tibetan refugees in north India /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Wischnewski, Juliane. "Reconstructing climate variability on the Tibetan Plateau : comparing aquatic and terrestrial signals." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5245/.
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Spatial and temporal temperature and moisture patterns across the Tibetan Plateau are very complex. The onset and magnitude of the Holocene climate optimum in the Asian monsoon realm, in particular, is a subject of considerable debate as this time period is often used as an analogue for recent global warming. In the light of contradictory inferences regarding past climate and environmental change on the Tibetan Plateau, I have attempted to explain mismatches in the timing and magnitude of change.
Therefore, I analysed the temporal variation of fossil pollen and diatom spectra and the geochemical record from palaeo-ecological records covering different time scales (late Quaternary and the last 200 years) from two core regions in the NE and SE Tibetan Plateau. For interpretation purposes I combined my data with other available palaeo-ecological data to set up corresponding aquatic and terrestrial proxy data sets of two lake pairs and two sets of sites. I focused on the direct comparison of proxies representing lacustrine response to climate signals (e.g., diatoms, ostracods, geochemical record) and proxies representing changes in the terrestrial environment (i.e., terrestrial pollen), in order to asses whether the lake and its catchments respond at similar times and magnitudes to environmental changes. Therefore, I introduced the established numerical technique procrustes rotation as a new approach in palaeoecology to quantitatively compare raw data of any two sedimentary records of interest in order to assess their degree of concordance.
Focusing on the late Quaternary, sediment cores from two lakes (Kuhai Lake 35.3°N; 99.2°E; 4150 m asl; and Koucha Lake 34.0°N; 97.2°E; 4540 m asl) on the semi-arid northeastern Tibetan Plateau were analysed to identify post-glacial vegetation and environmental changes, and to investigate the responses of lake ecosystems to such changes. Based on the pollen record, five major vegetation and climate changes could be identified: (1) A shift from alpine desert to alpine steppe indicates a change from cold, dry conditions to warmer and more moist conditions at 14.8 cal. ka BP, (2) alpine steppe with tundra elements points to conditions of higher effective moisture and a stepwise warming climate at 13.6 cal. ka BP, (3) the appearance of high-alpine meadow vegetation indicates a further change towards increased moisture, but with colder temperatures, at 7.0 cal. ka BP, (4) the reoccurrence of alpine steppe with desert elements suggests a return to a significantly colder and drier phase at 6.3 cal. ka BP, and (5) the establishment of alpine steppe-meadow vegetation indicates a change back to relatively moist conditions at 2.2 cal. ka BP. To place the reconstructed climate inferences from the NE Tibetan Plateau into the context of Holocene moisture evolution across the Tibetan Plateau, I applied a five-scale moisture index and average link clustering to all available continuous pollen and non-pollen palaeoclimate records from the Tibetan Plateau, in an attempt to detect coherent regional and temporal patterns of moisture evolution on the Plateau. However, no common temporal or spatial pattern of moisture evolution during the Holocene could be detected, which can be assigned to the complex responses of different proxies to environmental changes in an already very heterogeneous mountain landscape, where minor differences in elevation can result in marked variations in microenvironments.
Focusing on the past 200 years, I analysed the sedimentary records (LC6 Lake 29.5°N, 94.3°E, 4132 m asl; and Wuxu Lake 29.9°N, 101.1°E, 3705 m asl) from the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. I found that despite presumed significant temperature increases over that period, pollen and diatom records from the SE Tibetan Plateau reveal only very subtle changes throughout their profiles. The compositional species turnover investigated over the last 200 years appears relatively low in comparison to the species reorganisations during the Holocene. The results indicate that climatically induced ecological thresholds are not yet crossed, but that human activity has an increasing influence, particularly on the terrestrial ecosystem. Forest clearances and reforestation have not caused forest decline in our study area, but a conversion of natural forests to semi-natural secondary forests.
The results from the numerical proxy comparison of the two sets of two pairs of Tibetan lakes indicate that the use of different proxies and the work with palaeo-ecological records from different lake types can cause deviant stories of inferred change. Irrespective of the timescale (Holocene or last 200 years) or region (SE or NE Tibetan Plateau) analysed, the agreement in terms of the direction, timing, and magnitude of change between the corresponding terrestrial data sets is generally better than the match between the corresponding lacustrine data sets, suggesting that lacustrine proxies may partly be influenced by in-lake or local catchment processes whereas the terrestrial proxy reflects a more regional climatic signal. The current disaccord on coherent temporal and spatial climate patterns on the Tibetan Plateau can partly be ascribed to the complexity of proxy response and lake systems on the Tibetan Plateau. Therefore, a multi-proxy, multi-site approach is important in order to gain a reliable climate interpretation for the complex mountain landscape of the Tibetan Plateau.Die räumlichen und zeitlichen Temperatur- und Feuchtigkeitsmuster auf dem Tibet-Plateau sind sehr komplex. Im Einzugsbereich der asiatischen Monsune sind insbesondere der Beginn und das Ausmaß des Klimaoptimums während des Holozäns von wissenschaftlichem Interesse, da diese Periode oft als Analogie für die derzeitige globale Klimaerwärmung herangezogen wird. In Hinblick auf sich teilweise widersprechende Paläoklima- und Umweltrekonstruktionen für das Tibet-Plateau, ist es mein Ziel, die bestehenden Unstimmigkeiten bezüglich des Zeitpunktes und des Ausmaßes des Umweltwandels zu erklären. Dafür wurden von mir zeitliche Variationen fossiler Pollen- und Diatomeenspektren und geochemische Untersuchungen an Seesedimenten unterschiedlicher Zeitskalen (Spätquartär und die letzten 200 Jahre) aus zwei Kernregionen auf dem NO und SO Tibet-Plateau analysiert. Zur Unterstützung der Interpretation wurden die hier erhobenen Daten mit bereits vorhandenen paläoökologischen Aufzeichnungen der Lokalitäten kombiniert, um Datensätze der entsprechenden aquatischen und terrestrischen Proxy-Daten (Stellvertreterdaten) zweier Seenpaare aus den beiden Regionen gegenüberstellen zu können. Hierbei konzentrierte ich mich auf den direkten Vergleich von Proxies, die die Seenentwicklung reflektieren (z.B. Diatomeen, Ostracoden, geochemische Eigenschaften), mit Proxies, die Veränderungen der terrestrischen Umgebung des Sees beschreiben (terrestrische Pollen). Durch diesen Vergleich lässt sich beurteilen, ob Veränderungen im See selbst mit Umweltveränderungen in dem jeweiligen Einzugsgebiet zeitlich übereinstimmen. Dafür habe ich die bereits etablierte numerische Methode Procrustes-Rotation als neuen Ansatz in der Paläoökologie eingeführt. Damit ist ein quantitativer Vergleich von Rohdaten zweier beliebiger sedimentärer Datensätze möglich, um den Grad der Übereinstimmung zu prüfen. Um die in dieser Arbeit rekonstruierten Umwelt- und Klimaereignisse des nordöstlichen Tibet-Plateaus in einen größeren Zusammenhang hinsichtlich holozäner Klimaentwicklung des gesamten Plateaus setzen zu können, und um schlüssige zeitliche und räumliche Klimatrends auf dem Plateau erkennen zu können, habe ich auf alle vorhandenen Paläoklimadatensätze einen Fünf-Skalen Feuchtigkeitsindex und eine Clusteranalyse angewandt. Es konnten jedoch keine einheitlichen zeitlichen und räumlichen Trends der holozänen Klimaentwicklung nachgewiesen werden, was meiner Analyse entsprechend, auf die komplexen Reaktionen verschiedener Proxies auf Umweltveränderungen in einer ohnehin sehr heterogen Berglandschaft, zurückgeführt werden kann. Die Ergebnisse des numerischen Proxy-Vergleichs beider Seenpaare zeigen, dass die Verwendung von verschiedenen Proxies und die Arbeit mit paläo-ökologischen Datensätzen unterschiedlicher See-Typen zu abweichenden Klimaableitungen führen können. Unabhängig vom untersuchten Zeitraum (Holozän oder die letzten 200 Jahren) oder der Region (SO oder NO Tibet-Plateau), ist die Übereinstimmung zweier Datensätze hinsichtlich der Richtung, des Zeitpunktes und des Ausmaßes der abgeleiteten Paläo-Umweltverhältnisse in der Regel zwischen den entsprechenden terrestrischen Datensätzen besser als zwischen den entsprechenden lakustrinen Datensätzen. Die derzeitige Uneinigkeit über stimmige zeitliche und räumliche Klimatrends auf dem Tibet-Plateau kann daher teilweise der Komplexität der verschieden Proxies und ihrer individuellen Empfindlichkeiten gegenüber Umweltveränderungen sowie der unterschiedlichen Reaktionsweise verschiedenartiger See-Systeme auf dem Plateau zugeschrieben werden. Meine Ergebnisse zeigen, dass ein „Multi-Proxy-Multi-Site-Ansatz“ für zuverlässige Paläoklimaableitungen für das Tibet-Plateau von zentraler Bedeutung ist.
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Heyman, Jakob. "Palaeoglaciology of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-38689.
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Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2010.At the time of doctoral defence the following publications were unpublished and had a status as follows: Nr 1: Manuscript in press; Nr 2 and 3: Manuscripts.
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Morén, Björn. "Palaeoglaciology of the central Tibetan Plateau." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology (INK), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43145.
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The glacial history of the Tibetan Plateau has long been a contentious topic with widely different reconstructions. For Tanggula Shan, an extensive mountain range on the central Tibetan Plateau, multiple glacial reconstruc- tions and studies on the glacial chronology have been presented. However, the glacial geomorphological record has been sparse resulting in insufficient data to fully infer the area’s palaeoglaciology. Focussing on four landform categories, glacial valleys, marginal moraines, hummocky terrain, and glacial lineations; a glacial geomorphological map was produced, using Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite imagery, SRTM digital elevation model, and Google Earth. This map, together with GIS analyses and available cosmogenic exposure and electron spin reso- nance ages from the study area, was used to investigate the extent of former glaciations. Cosmogenic exposure and electron spin resonance ages range from 18.4 ± 1.6 to 203.4 ± 33.2 ka (recalculated using the CRONUS calculator). The extent of the glacial footprint is restricted to the high mountain areas, and is similar in extent to earlier glacial reconstructions. This glacial footprint can tentatively be explained by a monsoonal influence in the southeast, with the influence diminishing to the northwest. Alternatively, the precipitation gradient might have resulted in cold-based ice in the west and warm-based ice in the east. These variations in ice regime could have left fewer traces of glaciation in the west, than in the east. There is no evidence supporting an ice sheet covering the entire Tibetan Plateau. Rather, the available data support a smaller ice field in the high mountain areas, with a maximum extent well before the Last Glacial Maximum.
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Van, Dyke Mary Eirene. "Constructing tradition : Tibetan architecture in Europe." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417840.
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Labiesse, Christiane. "Tibetan review : étude des dispositifs communicationnels." Toulouse 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOU20023.
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L'analyse des éditoriaux d'une revue mensuelle, la Tibetan Review, publiée dans la diaspora tibétaine, permet-elle une approche pertinente de la situation particulière de cette petite communauté d'exilés en attente d'une solution négociée au conflit qui l'oppose à la Chine? Pour répondre à cette question, un corpus de 96 éditoriaux de la revue a été soumis à une analyse statistique des données textuelles qui a montré une forte dichotomie thématique Chine/Tibet, puis à une analyse de discours qui, à travers l'étude des stratégies argumentatives, a permis d'aborder les problèmes généraux posés par la production/réception de tout message médiatique. Les éditoriaux de la Tibetan Review en tant que discours persuasifs, posent la question de la formation de l'opinion par la presse, une problématique inédite pour la communauté tibétaine, qui a "découvert" tardivement, en exil, ce qu'est la démocratie, les médias et la place qu'ils peuvent tenir dans la vie politique. Les éditorialistes de la revue ont donc joué un rôle pionnier au sein de la diaspora, et leurs écrits, fortement idéologiques et révélateurs d'un système de représentations sociales culturellement élaborées, contribuent à forger l'identité du groupe. Ainsi, mise en perspective avec d'autres médias diasporiques, la Tibetan Review s'est-elle révélée être, comme eux, un lien communautaire susceptible d'entretenir la conscience identitaire et la mobilisation des lecteurs, et de contribuer de cette façon à la survie de la diaspora. A travers ces éditoriaux, c'est donc la vie des réfugiés tibétains qui progressivement se dévoile aux yeux de l'analysteCan the analysis of editorials published by the Tibetan Review, a monthly Review meant for the Tibetan diaspora, be a relevant approach to the particular situation of this small refugee community, waiting for negotiations with China? To answer the question, a statistic analysis of textual data was carried out in a corpus of 96 editorials revealing a marked dichotomy China/Tibet. Then, a discourse analysis, studying argumentative strategies, led us to deal with the problems of production/reception generally posed by any message from the media. Editorials of the Tibetan Review, as persuasive discourses, make us wonder how the press can shape public opinion, a new problematics for the Tibetan community who "discovered" belatedly, once in exile, what democracy and the media are as well as the part they play in political life. So editors of the Review have acted as pioneers and their highly ideological writings that reveal a system of social representations based on culture, contribute to strengthen the group identity. Thus, the Tibetan Review appears to be, like other diasporic media, a link between the community members which is likely to keep alive the conscience of ethnic identity and the sense of struggle among readers and, at the same time, can preserve the diaspora survival. Through the editorials of the Tibetan Review, the life of the Tibetan refugees is gradually revealing itself in the eyes of the analyst
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Vokurková, Zuzana. "Epistemic modalities in spoken standard Tibetan." Paris 8, 2008. http://octaviana.fr/document/145517160#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
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Cette thèse est une étude des modalités épistémiques en tibétain standard parlé. Celles-ci sont généralement exprimées par un système de terminaisons verbales appelées 'les terminaisons épistémiques'. Elles véhiculent différents degrés de certitude du locuteur concernant la réalité de son énoncé. La thèse est composée de cinq chapitres. Le premier chapitre théorique traite de la modalité en général et de ses corrélats, le temps et l'aspect. Nous nous appuyons sur les travaux de Palmer (1986), Dik (1997) et Gosselin (2005). Le second chapitre est une présentation de la situation linguistique au Tibet et une caractéristique morphologique et syntactique du tibétain standard parlé. Le troisième chapitre se concentre sur le système des terminaisons épistémiques en les analysant des points de vue conceptuel, fonctionnel et syntactique. Nous montrons que ces terminaisons, tout comme les terminaisons évidentielles (médiatives) véhiculent également des valeurs évidentielles (sensorielle, factuelle, égophorique) et qu'elles sont en principe employées dans les phrases affirmatives et négatives, et non dans les phrases interrogatives. Le quatrième chapitre est une classification de différents types des terminaisons épistémiques. En tout, nous décrivons 44 terminaisons épistémiques et construisons leur paradigme aspecto-temporel. Enfin, le cinquième chapitre traite de la compatibilité des verbes secondaires avec les terminaisons épistémiques. Pour conclure, une douzaine de types des terminaisons épistémiques sont employés dans la langue parlée. Ils diffèrent par leur degré de certitude, le temps-aspect, la valeur évidentielle, l'emploi géographique et la fréquenceThis dissertation is a study of epistemic modalities in spoken Standard Tibetan. They are generally conveyed by a system of verbal endings called 'epistemic endings'. These endings express various degrees of the speaker's certainty of the actuality of his utterance. The dissertation consists of five chapters. The first chapter is theoretic dealing with modality in general, and with the related categories of tense and aspect. I draw on the works of Palmer (1986), Dik (1997) and Gosselin (2005). The second chapter presents the linguistic situation in Tibet and characterizes spoken Standard Tibetan morphologically and syntactically. The third chapter concentrates on the system of epistemic endings analyzing them from a conceptual, functional and syntactic point of view. It is demonstrated that epistemic endings, just like evidential endings, also convey secondary evidential meanings (sensory, factual, egophoric) and that they are normally used in affirmative and negative sentences, and not in interrogative sentences. The fourth chapter is a classification of the various types of epistemic endings. Altogether, 44 epistemic endings are described and their tense-aspect paradigm is built. Finally, the fifth chapter deals with the compatibility of the secondary verbs with epistemic endings. In conclusion, a dozen of types of epistemic endings are commonly used in the spoken language. They differ in the degree of certainty, the tense-aspect, the evidential meaning, the geographic use and the frequency
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Dolkar, Tsetan [Verfasser], and Dirk [Akademischer Betreuer] Berg-Schlosser. "Sino-Tibetan Relations 1990 - 2000 : the Internationalisation of the Tibetan Issue / Tsetan Dolkar. Betreuer: Dirk Berg-Schlosser." Marburg : Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1014851939/34.
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Thurston, Timothy O'Connor. "Laughter on the Grassland: A Diachronic Study of A mdo Tibetan Comedy and the Public Intellectual in Western China." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430960495.
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Manevskaia, Ilona. "Blue Buddha : Tibetan medicine in contemporary Russia (St Petersburg and Moscow)." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/blue-buddha-tibetan-medicine-in-contemporary-russia-st-petersburg-and-moscow(98d3d4b1-ee53-4ae2-a033-2ff8eefda142).html.
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This thesis focuses on the socio-cultural and anthropological aspects of Tibetan medicine in contemporary Russia and investigates how Tibetan medicine is practised, consumed and represented in two major Russian cities, Moscow and St Petersburg. It is the first case-study of such kind in the context of Russian culture, as the anthropological aspects of Tibetan medicine in contemporary Russia have not yet been the subject of a systematic research. Up till now, scholarly publications on Tibetan medicine in Russia have dealt either with the translation and textual analysis of ancient Tibetan medical treatises or with the history of the first appearance of Tibetan medicine in Buriatia, the traditionally Buddhist region of Russia, and St Petersburg / Petrograd, paying little attention to contemporary developments and, most importantly, ignoring how Tibetan practitioners and their patients are making sense of Tibetan medicine. Based on twenty four interviews with practitioners and consumers of Tibetan medicine in the two Russian capitals, my research fills in this lacuna by looking at personal experiences, perceptions and accounts of my interviewees and exploring how they adapt Tibetan medicine to their skills, beliefs and ideas. My approach to sources is informed by Iurii Lotman's theory of intercultural communication. Although this theory was developed by Lotman for the analyses of the processes of cultural reception of literary texts, it is also relevant, with some modifications, for the analysis of the process of reception of non-textual cultural forms. The analysis of data collected from interviews with doctors and patients and the textual analysis of media, cinematic and literary sources has revealed two dominant trends and representational techniques. The first trend amounts to representing Tibetan medicine as unique and exotic, while the second trend amounts to the conceiving of Tibetan medicine as Russia's indigenous tradition, a part of Russian history, which had been subverted and suppressed in the Soviet period, yet rediscovered post-1991. Thus, we see here a co-existence of the inter-cultural dialogue between Russian culture and an exotic 'other' and the intra-cultural dialogue with a recently rediscovered part of 'self'. Both trends, which, at first glance, might appear to stand in contradiction to each other, sometimes coexist within a single explanatory narrative. The thesis also focuses on inter-cultural interactions between doctors and patients. It is argued that these interactions take place in the context of a noteworthy sociological and cultural phenomenon that the thesis calls 'mutual counter-adaptation'. Mutual counter-adaptation is the key mechanism used, consciously or spontaneously, by Tibetan doctors and their patients in order to facilitate the process of understanding between the parties involved in an inter-cultural dialogue around Tibetan medicine. The thesis finally reveals how this mutual counter-adaption takes place within a wider Russian cultural and media environment which exploits a set of specific symbols and images in order to make Tibetan medicine comprehensible and attractive to the wider Russian public.
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Hall, Amelia J. E. "Revelations of a modern mystic : the life and legacy of Kun Bzang Bde Chen Gling Pa 1928-2006." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:87c510cd-7fec-4366-b9d3-27561eb8317d.
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This study traces the development of Tibetan 'treasure' texts and practices in contemporary times via the life-story and scriptural revelations of the Tibetan 'treasure revealer' (gter ston) Kun bzang bde chen gling pa (1928-2006). It examines how his revelations (gter ma) rooted in the historic spirituality of Tibet, continue and adapt into the twenty first century. The study is important in order to understand the ways this Asian religious concept develops and coalesces in North America. With the dramatic advances in communication through digital technology, it examines how gter ma texts and practices reach a modern audience. Also discussed are the implications of centuries old debates surrounding Buddhist lineage, transmission and ‘authenticity’ as well as concepts such as liberty, equality and authority. All of which are culture-specific constructions that differ radically when seen from a variety of perspectives. The main conclusion drawn from this research is that as a Western Vajrayāna ‘tradition’ emerges and intersects with older Tibetan forms, both must attempt to find a middle path between their differing applications and interpretations if they are to avoid drifting into an arena of extensive commercialisation, dilution and distortion.
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Wangdak, Tenzin. "The sino-tibet dialogue: prospect of the bad faith dialogue." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/11459.
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The dissertation examines the state of current Sino Tibetan dialogue analyzing the early years of direct contact between Beijing and the Dalai Lama through protracted stalemate of nineties on to the current rounds of dialogue. By providing an assessment of current position of dialogue, this paper surveys the factors which are likely to impact the future dynamics of engagement under theoretical framework of the security dilemma, framing the Sino-Tibetan conflict as a dilemmatic and dynamic interplay of the Chinese Party-state and Tibetan nation. This research argues that Beijing’s mix signals in the dialogue define as bad faith justified by its diplomacy with Tibetan part throughout the process of engagement. With thorough assessment and justification of the position on the current discourse, this dissertation end with two fold prospects of the Sino Tibetan discussion and subsequent personal proposition on the importance of establishing a dialogue between two parties to settle a long standing dispute; ### O DIÁLOGO SINO-TIBETANO: PERSPECTIVAS SOBRE O DIÁLOGO DE MÁ-FÉ.
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Esta dissertação avalia o estado atual do diálogo Sino-Tibetano analisando os primeiros anos de contacto direto entre Pequim e o Dalai Lama através do impasse prolongado da década de noventa para os atuais rodadas de diálogo. Avaliando o diálogo atual, este trabalho faz um levantamento dos fatores que são suscetíveis de afetar as futuras dinâmicas de envolvimento de acordo com o quadro teórico do dilema de segurança, enquadrando o conflito Chinês-Tibetano como uma interação dilemática e dinâmica do Partido do Estado Chinês e a nação Tibetana. Esta pesquisa prova que os sinais mistos de Pequim no diálogo são definidos como má-fé, justificado pela sua diplomacia com a parte Tibetana durante todo o processo de envolvimento e disputa. Com uma avaliação completa e a justificação da posição do discurso atual, esta dissertação finaliza com duas perspetivas de discussão, relativamente ao Sino-Tibetano diálogo e posterior proposição pessoal sobre a importância da ocorrência de um diálogo entre os dois partidos, a fim da resolver o longa data diferendo.
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De, Baerdemaeker Jo A. J. "Tibetan typeforms : an historical and visual analysis of Tibetan typefaces from their inception in 1738 up to 2009." Thesis, University of Reading, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515801.
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The research project traces the origin and evolution of Tibetan typeforms from their inception in 1738 up to 2009, and investigates their typographic use. The first chapter of this thesis introduces the characteristics of the Tibetan script and is followed by an analysis of the chronological evolution of significant developments in Tibetan type design within their historical context. A comparative investigation into Tibetan typefounding and composing practices is undertaken, in order to identify the different methods of resolving the inherent typographic complexities of the Tibetan script, e. g. the large character set; the vertical composition of conjoined consonants; diacritical positioning; and the like. Particular attention is paid to the period of hand-composition which laid the foundation for subsequent typographic developments. The final part of the thesis analyses the current state of digital Tibetan typefaces and offers suggestions to improve the representation of the Tibetan script in contemporary typographic use. The conclusion proposes a methodology for the completion of a digital Tibetan typeface.
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Dotson, Brandon. "Administration and law in the Tibetan Empire : the Section on Law and State and its Old Tibetan antecedents." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7b9a8728-595f-43f7-af32-dd41a8541a1a.
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The present study consists of a full translation and analysis of the three main versions of the Section on Law and State, a chapter on Tibetan imperial law and administration found in the mid-16th century Mkhas pa'i dga' ston by Dpa'-bo Gtsuglag Phreng-ba, and in the Rgya bod kyi chos 'byung rgyas pa of Mkhas-pa Lde'u and the Chos 'byung chen po bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan of Lde'u Jo-sras, which both date to the mid to late-13th century. While the post-dynastic Tibetan historical tradition attributes this entire body of legal and administrative reforms to Emperor Srong-btsan Sgam-po (c.605-649), the individual legal and administrative catalogues contained in the Section on Law and State, when subjected to close analysis, can be dated to several different periods. The principal aim of this analysis is to underline the early Tibetan antecedents for the catalogues contained in the Section on Law and State. By relating the catalogues of the Section on Law and State to Old Tibetan sources, this analysis describes in detail the legal and administrative practices of the Tibetan Empire (c.600-c.850). Among the topics covered by this analysis are historical geography and the 'nationalisation' of clan territory, social stratification, technological innovation and legal culture. The Section on Law and State is not limited solely to law and administration, however, and also offers insights regarding cultural institutions such as religious practices and Tibetan funerary culture. Taken together, the scattered and fragmentary catalogues that make up the Section on Law and State, many of which ultimately derive from manuals and official records from the imperial period, constitute a rare juridical corpus of the Tibetan Empire. As such, it furnishes important and detailed information about the legal and administrative culture of the Tibetan Empire, and constitutes a fundamental source for Tibetan social history. The preservation of such documents within Tibet's postdynastic religious histories underlines the persistence of Tibetan political theory, according to which divine rulers, Buddhist or otherwise, must govern according to the just traditions of their forebears.
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Thapa, Sneha. "FLEXIBLE LIMINALITY AMONG THE TIBETAN DIASPORA: TIBETAN EXILES ADJUSTING CULTURAL PRACTICES IN DHARAMSALA, INDIA AND THE UNITED STATES." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_etds/37.
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In this dissertation, I investigate the characteristics and quality of liminality among the Tibetan exile community in Dharamsala, India, and the United States. I argue that the quality of their liminality defines this exile community’s ability to maneuver and voice their influence to geo-political community of states that surround them, all while within their liminal condition. The Tibetan exile people live as stateless foreigners in India but have a better standard of living and better opportunities to acquire transnational resources than their surrounding host community. In the U.S., Tibetan diaspora people live as asylum-seekers and naturalized Tibetan-Americans but have established a popular political campaign (which enjoys the support of considerably many Americans) addressing the plight of Tibetans imposed by China. I argue that the Tibetan diaspora have achieved this unique social and political success as a marginalized community by adopting a cultural practice that I call “flexible liminality.” Flexible liminality is a Tibetan cultural practice that helps transient people adjust to any situation, people, and geo-politics circumstance.
Flexible liminality relies on two factors: first, political interest from various nation-states; second, a group’s ability to adjust their cultural practices to match external influences. In the case of the Tibetan exile community, it is important to note that they are excluded by multiple nation-states (China, India, the Western countries) in different ways simultaneously. Therefore, the world collective of Tibetan refugees are not fixed in one state of liminality but experience a variety of liminalities in relation to different nation-states. Second, the Tibetan exile community has adjusted their cultural practices to assimilate with host communities in whichever countries their exile-hood has landed them. Since Tibetans cannot acquire Indian citizenship, the Tibetan exile community uses India as a space to promote their political activism against China, and form better relationship with Western foreigners. In Dharamsala, the Tibetan community has organized institutions that guides Tibetan individuals to form relationships with foreign tourists, and acquire skills (i.e. language, behavior, education, philosophy) that would help them assimilate better when resettling in Western host countries. In both, Dharamsala and the U.S., the Tibetan diaspora have a cultivated cultural practice to advocate Tibetan political plight against China, and to communicate Tibetan religio-socio traditions with the foreign host community. As a result, Tibetans are able to achieve political popularity, and to socially draw empathy from foreign communities that aids in producing a space for Tibetan cultural preservation in exile.
The case study on Tibetan exile community sheds a new light on the study of marginality/liminality. This dissertation showcases that there can be a spectrum for the quality of liminality that goes from flexible at one end to inflexible at the other end. Not all exile groups have the same condition of liminality, being an exile community can be beneficial or crippling somewhere in the spectrum. Tibetan exile community has achieved a flexible end of liminality in exile but there are other exile groups who may not have the same maneuvering ability as the Tibetan exile community. This theory of flexible liminality can be used to better understand the lives of exiles by characterizing and measuring the quality of their liminality.
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Shearer, Megan Marie. "Tibetan Buddhism and the environment: A case study of environmental sensitivity among Tibetan environmental professionals in Dharamsala, India." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2904.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate environmental sensitivity among environmental professionals in a culture that is assumed to hold an ecocentric perspective. Nine Tibetan Buddhist environmental professionals were surveyed in this study. Based on an Environmental Sensitivity Profile Insytrument, an environmental sensitivity profile for a Tibetan Buddhist environmental professional was created from the participants demographic and interview data. The most frequently defined vaqriables were environmental destruction/development, education and role models.