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Tibetan literature generally refers to literature written in the Tibetan language or arising out of Tibetan culture. Historically, Tibetan has served as a trans-regional literary language that has been used, at different times, from Tibet to Mongolia, Russia, and present-day Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Pakistan. Today, the term Tibetan literature can also be applied to any work by an ethnic Tibetan person or arising out of Tibetan folk culture; contemporary Tibetan writers sometimes use Chinese, English, or other languages to compose their work.

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Tibetan literature

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Tibetan literature generally refers to literature written in the Tibetan language or arising out of Tibetan culture. Historically, Tibetan has served as...

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Tibetan Buddhist canon

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The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to sutrayana texts from...

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Tibetan culture

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Western languages. Tibetan literature has a historical span of over 1300 years. Perhaps the best known category of Tibetan literature outside of Tibet are...

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Tibetan calligraphy

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Tibetan calligraphy is the calligraphic tradition of writing the Tibetan language. As in other parts of East Asia, nobles, high lamas, and persons of high...

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Tibetan people

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The Tibetan people (Tibetan: བོད་པ་, Wylie: bod pa, THL: bö pa) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Their current population is estimated...

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Khasas

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various historical Indian inscriptions and ancient Indian Hindu and Tibetan literature. European sources described the Khasa tribe living in the Northwest...

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Michael Aris

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university faculty at St John's College. In 1978, he obtained a Ph.D. in Tibetan literature from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies). Later at St Antony's...

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Tibetan Buddhism

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Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. It also has a sizable number of adherents in the areas surrounding the...

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Bardo Thodol

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best-known work of Nyingma literature. In 1927 the text was one of the first examples of both Tibetan and Vajrayana literature to be translated into a European...

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The Girl Langa Langchung and the Rooster

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Langa Langchung and the Rooster is a Tibetan tale published as part of the compilation of The Golden Corpse (Tibetan: Mi ro gser sgrung), a compilation...

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Traditional Tibetan medicine

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therapies (e.g. Tibetan acupuncture, moxabustion, etc.) to treat illness. The Tibetan medical system is based upon Indian Buddhist literature (for example...

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Kalki

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that the text originated in Central Asia in the 10th-century, and Tibetan literature picked up a version of it in India around 1027 CE. The Kalki incarnation...

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Flag of Tibet

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The flag of Tibet (Standard Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་དར།, lit. 'Tibetan national flag'), also known as the "Snow Lion flag" (gangs seng dar cha), depicts...

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Buddhist tantric literature

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and other related works. Tantric Buddhist literature survives in various languages, including Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese. Most Indian sources were composed...

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Tibetic languages

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State of Myanmar. Classical Tibetan is the major literary language, particularly for its use in Buddhist literature. Tibetan languages are spoken by some...

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Buddhist texts

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Pali Literature Pali Text Society Palm-leaf manuscript Pariyatti (bookstore) Sanskrit Buddhist literature Sutta Piṭaka Taishō Tripiṭaka Tibetan Buddhist...

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Karchag Lhankarma

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Abhisamayālaṃkāra Literature in Tibet from the Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries". Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS) (5)...

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Tibetan Language Institute

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workshops, and public lectures on Tibetan language, literature, and philosophy for the purpose of preserving Tibetan culture and enriching one's study...

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Snow Lion

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The Snow Lion (sometimes spelled snowlion; Tibetan: གངས་སེང་གེ་, Wylie: gangs seng ge; Chinese: 雪獅) is a celestial animal of Tibet. It is the emblem of...

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Tibetan autobiography

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Tibetan autobiography, or, rangnam (Tibetan: ་་རང་རྣམ, ་Wylie: rang-rnam), is a form of autobiography native to Tibetan Buddhism. Although autobiography...

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Sanskrit literature

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influenced the literature of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and the Malay Archipelago. The study of Sanskrit Kāvya also influenced Tibetan literature, and was promoted...

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Ippolito Desideri

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learned the Classical Tibetan literary language (unknown to Europeans before) and became a voracious student of Tibetan literature, philosophy, and culture...

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Clear Mirror on Royal Genealogy

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Clear Mirror on Royal Genealogy (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རབས་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང, Wylie: rgyal rabs gsal ba'i me long; "The clear mirror" for short) was a pseudo-historical...

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Chinese literature

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for something' literature such as Yi Zhongtian, and in Tibetan literature with Alai, literature of the mega cities, women's literature with Bi Shumin's...

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Robert Thurman

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edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University,...

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Tibetan Annals

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The Tibetan Annals, or Old Tibetan Annals (OTA), are composed of two manuscripts written in Old Tibetan language found in the early 20th century in the...

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