Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Tibetan Buddhist texts printed by the Mdzod-dge sgar-gsar monastery
This chapter describes Tibetan Buddhist texts printed by the Mdzod-dge sgar-gsar monastery located on page 373 of volume Volume 3 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
Volume 3 begins with a new perspective on the evolution of tantras, based on Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Indonesian, and Simhalese sources. It further shows that the deification of kings and colossi of the Avatamsaka in Afghanistan, China and Japan are a crucial stage in tantra development.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Tibetan Buddhist texts printed by the Mdzod-dge sgar-gsar monastery. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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It may be noted that there is a correspondence between the Buddhist enumeration of the jati and the kula categories except for the marked inclusion of the gahapati among the high kulas which is missing in the high jatis. (* 1) Pacittiya, pp. 10-12; B. O. D. , II, pp. 173-6. (* 2) Ibid. , p. 10. These five hina jatis are frequently repeated as a group in the Buddhist texts....
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