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 from Tibet. The iconography of the Bon religion is presented through a series of thangkas, miniatures, and bronzes from public and private collections in the West, as well as from communities within Tibet. The peaceful, tutelary, protector, and local deities, as well as the Bon siddhas, lamas, and dakinis, are identified and fully described by means of excerpts from ritual or biographical texts that are translated here.
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Per Kvaerne is Director of the Institute for the Comparative Research in Human Culture, Oslo, and Professor of the History of Religions and Tibetology, University of Oslo. He has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1976 and was Convenor of the Sixth Conference of the International Association for Tibetan Studies in 1992. Besides a particular interest in the history, literature and art of the Bon religion, his field of research is late Indian tantric Buddhism and he has published An Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs: A Study of the Caryagiti, Oslo, 1977.
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This is an excellent source book on a rare topic. Very useful photo coverage on objects, deity figures, and cultural milieus for a pre-Buddhist shamanistic Tibetan religion
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As with Buddhism in Tibet, Bon distinguishes between 'peaceful' and 'wrathful' deities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tsa med, gtso mchog mkha, gtsug phud, sgrub skor, great garuda, pang sad, eighteen arms, fierce deities, peaceful deities, fierce deity, tshul khrims, fierce god, fierce head, main deity, twelve links, nine heads, meditational practices, lower garment, tutelary deities, six arms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Drenpa Namkha, Takla Mebar, Tibet Photo, Satrig Ersang, Four Transcendent Lords, Sangpo Bumtri, Trowo Tsochog Khagying, Nampar Gyalwa, Sherap Gyaltsen, Lishu Taring, Welchen Gekhb, Ati Muwer, Gyalwa Gyatso, Protectors of Bon, Great Perfection, Namkhai Norbu, Tbnpa Shenrap, Three Realms, Tsewang Rigzin, Lokesh Chandra, Shenlha Wbkar, Sherap Chamma, Tritsug Gyalwa, Four Excellent Youths, Khala Dugmo New!
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As with Buddhism in Tibet, Bon distinguishes between 'peaceful' and 'wrathful' deities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tsa med, gtso mchog mkha, gtsug phud, sgrub skor, great garuda, pang sad, eighteen arms, fierce deities, peaceful deities, fierce deity, tshul khrims, fierce god, fierce head, main deity, twelve links, nine heads, meditational practices, lower garment, tutelary deities, six arms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Drenpa Namkha, Takla Mebar, Tibet Photo, Satrig Ersang, Four Transcendent Lords, Sangpo Bumtri, Trowo Tsochog Khagying, Nampar Gyalwa, Sherap Gyaltsen, Lishu Taring, Welchen Gekhb, Ati Muwer, Gyalwa Gyatso, Protectors of Bon, Great Perfection, Namkhai Norbu, Tbnpa Shenrap, Three Realms, Tsewang Rigzin, Lokesh Chandra, Shenlha Wbkar, Sherap Chamma, Tritsug Gyalwa, Four Excellent Youths, Khala Dugmo New!
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- Reflections on Tibetan Culture: Essays in Memory of Turrell V. Wylie (Studies in Asian Thought and Religion) by Lawrence Epstein in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Cultural History of Tibet by Hugh Richardson in Back Matter
- Treasury of Good Sayings: A Tibetan History of Bon (Buddhist Tradition S.) by Samten G. Karmay in Back Matter
- Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities by Rene De Nebesky-Wojkowitz in Back Matter
- Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors by David L. Snellgrove in Back Matter
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