Bon studies

New Research on Zhanggzhung and related Himalayan Bon Studies 3 National Musuem of Ethnology Osaka 2001

A Catalogue of the Bon Kanjur Bon studies 8 National Museum of Ethnology Osaka 2003.

Healing with Form, Energy and Light The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen Author: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

According to the Bon tradition of Tibet, Tonpa Shenrab was not only the founder of the Bon religion but also the first Buddha to appear in this degenerate age (Kaliyuga), with the expressedpurpose of relieving the sufferings of all sentiment beings. In The Twelve Dees, told according to the traditional format, we can read abotu the major events of Tonpa Shenrabns life, including his compassionate and maraculours deeds and his entrance in to mahaparinirvana.

The iconography of the deities worshiped by the Tibetan as guardian of Buddhism belongs to the least known field of Tibetan studies. The numerous class of protective divinities comprises many figures who originally belonged to the pantheon of the old Tibetan Bon faith. A study of the Tibetan protective deities and their cult, apart from the giving an insight into a little known aspect of Lamaism, reveals new faces regarding the beliefs of pre-Buddhist Tibet and their relation to the…

Divine Dyads Ancient Civilization in Tibet Author: John Vincent Bellezza

In this book Prof. Hummel revisits the whole issue of Zhang-zhung, concentrating particularly on its language, but also on the actual size and geographical position of this kingdom. The studies presented here bring a host of new, almost provocative ideas, suggesting that Zhang-zhung was a vast confederacy of states stretching all the way from western to north-eastern Tibet, and that its language was in fact no artificail product. Tracing its origins to the eastern Tibetan region of Si-hia and Mi-nyag.…

Bon is one of the pre-buddhist religions of Tibet. It has been defined in a variety of ways, but regardless of how we define it, we can properly say that its culture has penetrated Tibetan culture from ancient times to the present day. For our deeper understanding of Tibetan culture, Bon is thus indispensable. This volume is a part of the results of the International Symposium entitled "New Horizons in Bon Studies" held in 1999 at the National Museum of…

Antiquities of Northern Tibet: Pre-Buddhist Archaeological Discoveries on the High Plateau details the exploration of archaeological sites on the highest parts of the Tibetan plateau conducted by the author on his Changthang Circuit Expedition in 1999. This pioneering research lays the groundwork for pre-Buddhist studies in Tibet by providing the requisite data needed to forge ahead in our understanding of prehistoric and protohistoric Tibet. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to the pre-Buddhist culture, people and environment of Tibet.…

Antiques of Upper Tibet: An inventory of Pre-Buddhist Archaeological Sites on the High Plateau examines a host of ancient John Vincent Bellezza during his Upper conducted in 2000. Adding significantly to introduces for the last time 100 archaeological sites perched on the highest parts of the Tibetan plateau, including those found physical traces unearthed by the author are of the utmost importance to our understanding of the pre-Buddhist civilization of Tibet. As this work demonstrates, until the adoption of Indian…

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It is rare to find a recorded lineage of female teachers in either Bon or Tibetan Buddhism, but this book contains heart advice from remarkable women from all over Central and Inner Asia who received precious dzogchen teachings, practiced with perseverance in the variety of circumstances, and finally realized rainbow body, complete Buddhahood.

These thirty short instructions sum up what each Khandro learnt and then, finally, what she experienced and taught her disciple.

New Bon promises to become an important focus of interest among academic Tibetologists in the coming years. This unique, first-ever English-language volume on Tibet is New Bon religion (14th century onwards) contains the full catalogue of the collected rediscovered teachings revealed by bDe chen gling pa, an important Bon po master of the second part of the 19th century in Eastern Tibet. Belonging to a later period of development within the various lineages of New Bon, bDe chen gling stands…

This book has presented numerous papers at international conferences around the world and recently has been working on the life of Dechen Lingpa and he hopes to containue his work on the religious history of Tibet. I wish him best of luck of with these future endeavours and i hope he will continue to be a prolific writer and researcher. He is the author of two books of poetry, the editor of two books of Choden Rinpoches teachings and numerous…

Bön, the ancient pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet, is still practiced today with a rapidly growing number of readers interested in the shamanism and magic that are part of its complete path to liberation. Full of practical and explicit instructions, this handbook for Westerners details the outer and inner fundamental Bön practices. This volume is part of a first wave of Bön books that are finding an enthusiastic North American audience.

The Bon religion claims to be the original and authentic religion of the Tibetan people, firmly established in the Land of Snows long before Buddhism was introduced in the seventh century CE. Although its adherents were gradually reduced to a minority, Bon has nevertheless continued to flourish in many areas up to the present day in Tibet, especially in the eastern and northeastern regions, where a reconstruction renaissance is taking place, as well as within the Bon community in exile…

Hailed as a fascinating and unique book, this is the first in-depth study of its kind comparing the ancient Bon religion with the Siberian shamanic tradition of Lake Baikal. Combining scholarly research with spiritual insight and with over 200 illustrations, maps and diagrams, the information is presented in a clear and lively way, enabling the reader to navigate easily through the various topics dealt with and to follow the threads of the intricate tapestry which is woven as the parallels…

The subject for this study, the Tibetan treasure revealer Gshen-chen Klu-dga, is a crucial figure in the development of Bon as an organised religion after the eleventh century. Here for the first time he is situated in the context of what was happening in Buddhism at the time. By scrutinizing his life and gter-ma (treasures), that were to be of much controversy in later ages, Dan Martin sheds light on the mechanism of Tibetan polemical tradition and the ways in…

Bon traditional culture in Tibetan language.

For the last fourteen years, the physician and anthropologist Henry M. Vyner has been interviewing Tibetan Lamas for the purpose of developing an empirically valid theory of the defining characteristics of the healthy human mind. Vajra Books is publishing these interviews as a series of books that are being called The Healthy Mind Interviews. The volume you hold in your hands is the fourth volume in this series, and it presents interviews that have been done with three different lamas.…