Title: Thundering falcon : an inquiry into the history and cult of Khra-'brug, Tibet's first Buddhist temple /
Authors: Sørensen, Per K.; Hazod, Guntram; Tsering, Gyalbo.; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.; Xizang Zizhiqu she hui ke xue yan jiu yuan
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Buddhism China Tibet Autonomous Region History; Buddhist temples China Tibet Autonomous Region History.; Buddhist temples China Yarlung History.; Buddhist sects China Tibet Autonomous Region History.; Buddhist temples China Tibet Autonomous Region History.; Buddhist temples China Yarlung History.; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Religion History.; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Religion.
Abstract: Accompanying DVD-ROM contains: two Landsat films: Visit to lHo-kha and Yar-lung / programmed by Ch. Siewert (2004); Visit to Khra-'brug temple / videofilm recorded by Per K. Sørensen, October 2002; Scenes from the Khra-'brug Me tog mchod pa festival / videofilm recorded by Tsering Gyalbo, May 2001; text photographs: Tshangs pa mchod bstod; A key ritual text (=Text F, Mss 1b1-85b2) kept in Khra-'brug.
Contents: Introduction. The position and classification of Khra-'brug in the Tibetan tradition ; Sources and subject matter ; Historico-geographical delimitations ; Old Khra-'brug : successive phases of the building history ; Political and religious developments in the Yar-lung area and their reflection in the temple history -- Sources for this history of the Khra-'brug . Text A (Khra-'brug gi gnas bshad) ; Text B (excerpt from mKhas pa 'i dga ' ston) ; Text C (excerpt from bKa ' thang sde lnga) ; Text D (excerpt from the bKa ' chems Ka khol ma) ; Text E ; Text F -- Appendices. Appendix I. The tradition concerning Tibet's first royal temples / Per K. Sørensen and Guntram Hazod) ; Appendix II. The falcon and the lizard : Yar-lung and the cultic history of its royal temple, the "Thundering Falcon" / Guntram Hazod ; Appendix III (tables) ; Appendix IV. Architectural documentation -- Facsimile of the Gnas bshad (text A).