Vajra Publications
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The traditional water tank called Jarunhiti was once widely used in the Newar community of Nepal. Now the Jarunhiti is disappearing day-by-day and Nepal is on the verge of losing a valuable part of its cultural heritage.
Many traditional values are vanishing from the country because of the rapid change in the society, politics, and social/cultural behavior of the local people. This book, which is compiled by a photographer, archeologist, and an ethnographer, ...
The work describes an archaic ritual of the Bon, Tibet’s ancient religion, that involves undertaking a ritual pilgrimage through wild places inhabited by mountain deities, water genii, ferocious demons and dangerous ghosts to celebrate the meditative sacrifice of one’s own body which is offered to invisible beings as spiritual nourishment during a singular ritual banquet. Presenting texts and illustrating the work with photographs, Dr. Martino ...
Around two thousand six hundred years ago while the exploitation caused by Brahmins was on peak point, a genious prince was born in Kapilvastu, Lumbini the Sotuhern part of Nepal named Siddhartha. He saw perilous situation in the human society that certain class of people enjoying their life beyond the limitation capturing all social powers into their hands and others except Kshatriyas and Vaisyas were on deep rooted poverty. In the youth age Siddhartha ...
Translations from the Bonpo Dzogchen practice manual. The Gyalwa chaktri of Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung and The seven-fold cycle of the clear light, the dark retreat practice from the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud.
CINNABARIS - SERIES OF ORIENTAL STUDIES Cardamom and Class A Limbu Village and its Extensions in East Nepal Ian Carlos Fitzpatrick Cardamom and Class investigates the history of economic differentiation in a Limbu village in east Nepal. By examining three historically overlapping productive processes - subsistence agriculture, cardamom cultivation, and international migration - this book shows how each productive process has contributed in different ways to the ...
What are the most dangerous peaks to climb? What are the safest? When is the best time of year to climb? These and many other questions are answered in this comprehensive statistical analysis of climbing activity, ascents and fatalities in the Nepal Himalaya. The analyses cover three periods of climbing: 1950-1969 - the expeditionary period, 1970-1989 - the transitional period, and 1990-2009 - the commercial period The data are analyzed in several categories ...
The Two Truths in Bon is an innovative survey of Madhyamika's two truths theory of the Bon religion in comparison with Indian and Tibetan Madhyamika. Since 1960's Bonpo study has developed rapidly in western countries. Concerning its doctrine, they seem to have focused on Vajrayāna and Dzogchen. On the other hand, the study on Sūtrayāna has been left behind. Madhyamika philosophy is the fundamental basis of Vajrayana and Dzogchen, and the two truths is the basic ...
At last, the theory of relativity for Buddhism. This scintillating work, the second of a series, titled “Unveiling the Esoteric in Buddhism”, seriously challenges the thinking concerning many conventionally accepted ideas about the nature of the content of Buddhist scriptures. The opinions of what Buddhists believe concerning the great majority of their sutras and Tantras will change in the light of the many revelations presented in this series of ...
The subject of this volume, the Tibetan (treasure revealer) Gshen-chen Kludga', 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 during this period. By scruitining his life and gter-ma (treasures), that were to be of much controversy in later ages, the author sheds light on the mechanism of Tibetan polemical tradition and ...
Look Kalamas, it is not by recitation, not by tradition, nor by report, nor by scripture, nor by reason of philosophy, nor by reason of inference, nor by thinking ideas through, nor by favouring views, nor by other’ seeming capability, nor insofar as a particular ascetic is your teacher, but rather when you know for yourselves.With these words, among his most famous, the Buddha threw down a gauntlet for authentic seekers of truth and well-being that ...
Maya Yoga is the title of Keith Dowman's translation of "finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment" written by the inimitable Longchen Rabjampa. In the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, this text is considered second to none in its power to evoke the nature of the nondual reality of the Dzogchen view. With poetic mastery, Longchenpa provides the precepts that can instantly illuminate the Buddha-reality that is our ordinary everyday experience. He ...
PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000.
For nearly 240 years (1768-2006) either the Shah Dynasty or their Rana Prime Ministers ruled Nepal in the name of Hinduism; in more recent times Shah Kings claimed also to embody national unity in their own person. Since the nineteenth century Nepal experienced the autocracy of the Ranas, a first experiment with parliamentarianism, guided partyless democracy led by the king, multi-party constitutional monarchy (including an elected minority communist government ...