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Indian and Persian Prosody and Recitation is a comparative study of Indo-Aryan and Persian metrical systems and their musical performances, with text and audio samples.
The essays in Part I of this volume survey Persian, Urdu, Hindi and Bengali metres and compare their rhythmic patterns. In addition to offering comparative surveys on Indo-Aryan and Persian metres and their musical and recitational performances, the essays attempt to identify the legacy of ...
Bon is one of the pre-buddhist religions of Tibet and has its own importance. This is the first volume of Bon Studies Series. In this book, the renowned scholars of Bon Studies have made efforts to present the importance of Bon Mandalas. It contains 132 Mandalas with their names and descriptions in Tibetan as well as in Romanized Tibetan. Originally, these Mandalas were painted in accordance with the ritual text explaining the theory and practice of Mandala. The ...
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 Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. The purpose of this symposium ...
Kadampa school as a strong spiritual movement with its monastic base in Tibet is little known. Historians and Scholars of Tibetan Buddhism attribute this as a missing link in the cultural history of Tibet. The significance of the present work lies in researching and providing this vital missing link. This work marks the period prior to the emergence of different Tibetan Buddhist religious traditions. The work is full of historical significance and a source of ...
This book is an outcome of general Survey of Monasteries, Temples and Hermitages of the Bon religion, known as Yung drug Bon. It contains the result of the field work done by the team of scholars of National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka Japan headed by Dr. Yasuhiko Nagano & Dr. Samten G. Karmay. Such concrete & detailed description of the Bonpo Monasteries & people, based on extensive field work, has never before appeared since the beginning of ...