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The period from the second half of the 19 th through the first third of the 20 th century marks the highest development of Buryat Buddhism. Once a derivative and integral part of the Tibetan-Mongol Buddhist world, by the end of the 19 th... more
MA Dissertation. Historiographical Review on Nalanda Mahavihara and the importance of "Nalanda Tradition" of Tibetan Buddhism.
2008, Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer. "The Dunhuang Phur pa Corpus: A Survey", in Almogi, Orna, ed. Contributions to Tibetan Buddhist Literature. PIATS 2006: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International... more
Предлагаем вашему вниманию второй выпуск журнала Tartaria Magna (Тартария Магна), в котором мы продолжаем тему противостояния и компромисса между "своим" и "чужим". В этом выпуске представлены исследования авторов, так или иначе... more
The Mongolic-speaking Kalmyks currently inhabiting the steppes of the Volga region have Central Asian ancestry and are organized into the tribal groups. The genetic relationships among these tribes and their origin have remained obscure.... more
First issue of new academic journal. Studia Turkica Mongolica Tibetica Manchurica Sibirica Russica et cetera. Tartaria Magna is a peer reviewed e-journal in Russian. Editors accept papers and reviews in English and provide Russian... more
Largely through the efforts of Scott DeLancey the grammatical category “mirative” has gained currency in linguistics. DeLancey bases his elaboration of this category on a misunderstanding of the semantics of h. dug in “Lhasa” Tibetan.... more
'Indigenous elements in Tibetan tantric religion'. In Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ’14, Volume 7, No. 2, Special Issue "Indigenous Elements in Tibetan Religions" Edited by Daniel Berounský. Charles University, Prague, 2014. This paper is... more
In this paper, Nāgārjuna’s philosophical interpretation of the terms kāraṇa and kārya is analysed after having methodologically confined the specific field of interest to the MMK. From the study of all the occurrences of kāraṇa and kārya... more
Мир «своих» и «чужих». По праву кровного родства: родовые структуры и брачные стратегии в прошлом и настоящем народов Евразии / The world of ‘Self’ and ‘Others’. By Right of Consanguinity: Clan structures and matrimonial strategies in... more
In this paper we present the results of a study of the tonal adaptation of a corpus of c. 300 Mandarin and 40 English loanwords in Lhasa Tibetan drawn from Yu et al.’s (1980) Colloquial Lhasa Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary. Our principal... more
The article presents Go rams pa's interpretation and classification of cognizable object as explained by Sa skya Pan ˙ d ˙ ita in his famous Tshad ma rigs gter. The text consists of introduction to the translation of the original,... more
Religious Studies 314 is an introduction to classical literary Tibetan ( yig skad or yig rtsom bod yig). Classical literary Tibetan is the basis of Tibetan written culture that is common to educated people of all regions of Tibet, as well... more
Robert Linrothe. 2015. A Group of Mural Paintings from the 1930s in A mdo Reb gong in Gerald Roche, Keith Dede, Fernanda Pirie, and Benedict Copps (eds) Asian Highlands Perspectives 37 Centering the Local, A Festschrift for Dr. Charles... more
Presentation delivered at 20th FIT World Translator Congress 2014 in Berlin, Germany, by Craig Meulen on behalf of Esukhia Tibetan Language Services, www.esukhia.org
An examination of the principal cultural and musical associations of the sgra-snyan, examining the terminological and organological features, cultural and religious meanings and musical use of the instrument. Reformatted edition of the... more
Additional comments by: Dan Martin, Dorji Wangchuk, Christian Wedemeyer, and Ratna
Several Tibeto-Burman languages show a peculiar pattern of distribution of copulas and/or finite verb forms, in which one set occurs with first person subjects in statements, second person subjects in questions, and in complement clauses... more
ABSTRACT—The purpose of this discussion is to present the general characteristics of Tibetan thangka paintings and the forms of damage to which they are susceptible.
The relationship between minority languages and translator training programmes is a very new and under-researched area of inquiry in Translation Studies. The People’s Republic of China, which has 55 different minorities within its... more
Cicero says, in On The Nature of the Gods (De Natura Deorum, 45 BCE), that the word "religion" (Latin religio) derives not as usually thought from re-ligare, which would mean "to reconnect" (e.g. man with god) but from re-legere "to... more
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In this paper we present the results of a study of the tonal adaptation of a corpus of c. 300 Mandarin and 40 English loanwords in Lhasa Tibetan drawn from Yu et al.’s (1980) Colloquial Lhasa Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary. Our principal... more
A recent paper on the prehistory of the Tibetan verbal system by Guillaume Jacques (2012), in keeping with many previous authorities, presents Tibetan verbs as occurring in pairs, with a voiced intransitive and a voice-alternating... more
Important considerations on the expression of wish. Makes an interesting distinction between "speaker wish" and "subject wish", illustrating with examples. Ideas presented here are now developed in the mān and nūman articles of the... more