Trails of The Tibetan Tradition: Papers for Elliot Sperling

Contens: 1. The view of sPyi ti yoga/Jean-Luc Achard. 2. The first Mongol contacts with the Tibetans/Christopher P. Atwood. 3. Dalai Lama’s representative Agvan Dorjiev and Altaist Professor Wladyslaw Kotwicz: letters of 1912/Agata Bareja-starzynska.  4. Interpreting the body Mandala: Tsongkhapa versus later Gelung Scholars/Yael Bentor. 5. A General investigation into the life of the Tshe smon gling regent Ngag dbang jam dpal tshul khrims)/Be ri ‘Jigs med dbang rgyal. 6. Tibetan “Magical Rituals” (las sna tshogs) from the power of Tsongkhapa/Daniel Berounsky. 7. A controversy on vegetarianism/Katia Buffetrille. 8. Imperial interest made manifest: sGa A gnyan dam pa’s Mahakala protector Chapel of the Tre shod Mandala plain/Karl Debreczeny. 9. Gter-ma as imperial treasure: the 1755 Beijing edition of the Padma bka ‘thang/Matthew T. Kapstein. 10. Bela Szechenyi’s Amdo Tibetan “Root Words” and the names of the Tibetan letters/Gyorgy Kara and Marta Kiripolska. 11. On social death: the Spang mda tsang family and 20th century Tibetan history/Carole McGranahan. 12. How to address kings: Buddhist letters to Indian rulers/Richard F. Nance. 13. Understanding sovereignty in Amdo/Paul K. Nietupski. 14. The Lhasa Ripper, a preliminary investigation into the “Dark Underbelly” of social life in the holy city/Jamyang Norbu. 15. A research on how the poet Ksemendra became a religious king/dGe dun rab gsal. 16. Primeval Tibetan medicine/Rag rdo Blo bzang bstan ‘dzin.  17. Letters to the khans, six Tibetan epistles of Togdugpa addressed to the Mongol rulers Hulegu and Khubilai, as well as to the Tibetan Lama Pagpa/Jampa Samten and Dan Martin. 18. A document on the policy on foreigners in Tibet after the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1906/Peter Schwieger. 19. Central Asian Muslim on Tibetan Buddhism, 16th-18th centuries/Ron Sela. 20. Ga rgya gram nag: A Bandit or a proto-rebel? The question of Banditry as social protest in Nag chu/Tsering Shakya. 21. The Ro gag lung gshong battle/Chab mdo Shes rab. 22. Origins of the middle way policy/Warren Smith. 23. The function of Auxiliary verbs in Tibetan predicates and their historical development/Tsuguhito Takeuchi.  24. A study on the historiographical material concerning the Kings of sDe dge/Jo sras bKra shis tshe ring.  25. Altan Qayan (1507-1582) of the Tumed Mongols and the Stag lung Abbot Kun dga bkra shis rgyal mtshgan (1575-1635)/Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp and Gray Tuttle. 26. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama on warfare, weapons and the right to the self-defense/Federica Venturi. 27. The book of Names of Nyang stod bla ma-s: Masters and events of the years 997-1354/Roberto Vitali. 28. Thu’u bkwan’s literacy adaptation of the life of Dgongs pa rab gsal/Nicole Willock. 29. For Elliot Sperling/Woeser.