Biographies of eminent Mongol Buddhists
By: edited by Johan Elverskog
Contributors: Elverskog, Johan
Series: Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung -- Bd. 15; Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung -- Bd. 15.
Publisher: IITBS, International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Halle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9783882800838
Subjects: Buddhists; Biography; Congresses; Mongols
Notes: "PIATS 2006: Tibetan studies: proceedings of the eleventh seminar of the International Association for Tibetian Studies, Königswinter 2006."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Johan Elverskog; title: Forming a Mongolian Buddhist identity :; title: the biography of Neichi Toin  -- Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz; title: The Biography of Zaya Pandita, the greatest Oirad Monk  -- Hidehiro Okada and Junko Miyawaki-Okada; title: The growth of the religious authority of the first Jebdzundamba of Mongolia (1635-1723)  -- Agata Bareja-Starzynska; title: Gombojab :; title: a Tibetan Buddhist in the Capital of the Qing Empire  -- Vladimir Uspenskiy; title: Agvaandandar (1759-1840) :; title: philosopher, linguist and poet from Alashan  -- Magdalena Szpindler; title: Injannashi, The anti-Cervantes  -- Johan Elverskog; title: Lunrig Dandar :; title: life and works of one of the last great scholars of Tibetan medicine in Mongolia  -- D. Ganzorig; title: Samdan Tsydenov and his Buddhist theocratic project in Siberia  -- Nikolay Tsyrempilov; title: Lama Agvan Nyima (1907-1990) :; title: the Tibetan Buddhist Master from Buryat-Mongolia -- Natalia Bolsokhoeva.