Filtered through Multiple Lenses: What We Think Buddhists Thought Ritual Specialists Did
Filtered through Multiple Lenses: What We Think Buddhists Thought Ritual Specialists Did
Preliminary Remarks on the Character of Old Tibetan Funerary Texts, Exemplified with IOL Tib J 489 and IOL Tib J 562
Author(s): Joanna Bialek
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Old Tibetan; non-Buddhist funerary rites; Tibetan Empire; Tibetan Buddhism; ITJ 489; ITJ 562
Summary/Abstract: The paper is a first attempt of a complete translation and interpretation of two short and only partially preserved manuscripts, ITJ 489v and ITJ 562r. In terms of their contents, ITJ 489v and ITJ 562r belong to the collection of Buddhist texts that were composed to discredit funeral practices and afterlife beliefs attributed to non-Buddhist ritual specialists and their community. The manuscripts have to be treated in the broader context of the spread of Buddhism on the Tibetan Plateau and the methodical replacement of local rites and customs by their Buddhist equivalents in practice and on the linguistic level by new, Buddhist interpretations.
Book: Guruparamparā
- Page Range: 65-78
- Page Count: 14
- Publication Year: 2022
- Language: English
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