Death and beyond in ancient Tibet
Subtitle: archaic concepts and practices in a thousand-year-old illuminated funerary manuscript and old Tibetan funerary documents of Gathang Bumpa and Dunhuang
By: John Vincent Bellezza ; maps by Guntram Hazod
Series: Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens -- Nr. 77; Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 454. Band; Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens -- Nr. 77.; Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 454. Bd.
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9783700174332
Subjects: Thanatology; Death; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Funeral Rites; Mythology; Tibetan Manuscripts; Manuscripts as Topic
Other titles: Archaic concepts and practices in a thousand-year-old illuminated funerary manuscript and old Tibetan funerary documents of Gathang Bumpa and Dunhuang
Notes: Academy publication.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the funerary documents of this study; title: The illuminated funerary manuscript; title: The Gathang Bumpa funerary documents; title: Selected origins myths and rituals from the Dunhuang funerary manuscripts.