A concise introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

Author

John Powers

Call Number

• 294 P888.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, 2008.

Physical Description

165 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

• The Indian background
• Origins of Tibetan Buddhism
• The Buddha
• The Buddha's teaching career
• Mahayana
• Origins
• Mahayana doctrines
• The bodhisattva path
• Some important Buddhist doctrines
• Karma and rebirth
• Dependent arising
• Meditation
• The role of meditation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
• Stabilizing and analytical meditation
• The five Buddhist paths
• Tantra
• The place of the Tantras in Buddhist literature
• Tantra as a branch of Mahayana
• Tantric symbols
• Entering Tantric practice
• The four classes of Tantra
• The preliminary practices
• Death and dying in Tibetan Buddhism
• Tibetan religious history
• Tibet: geography and environment
• The early history of Tibet
• The period of the religious kings
• The second dissemination of Buddhism
• Mongol influence and Sakya supremacy
• The Gelukpa ascent to power
• The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• The twentieth century
• Foreign conflicts
• The fourteenth Dalai Lama
• The interregnum period
• The fourteenth Dalai Lama assumes power
• The Chinese occupation of Tibet
• The four orders
• Similarities and differences
• The nonsectarian movement
• Nyingma
• Sakya
• Kagyu
• Geluk.