Rolf Stein's Tibetica antiqua
Subtitle: with additional materials
By: by Rolf A. Stein ; translated and edited by Arthur P. McKeown
Contributors: McKeown, Arthur P.
Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library -- v. 24; Brill's Tibetan studies library -- v. 24.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789004183384
Notes: Translation of articles which originally appeared in French in the journal Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient from 1983 to 1992, together with Stein's contributions to the Annuaire de college de France from 1967 to 1970.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-354) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Tibetica antiqua I. The two vocabularies of Indo-Tibetan and Sino-Tibetan translations in the Dunhuang manuscripts; title: Tibetica antiqua II. The use of metaphors for honorific distinctions in the epoch of the Tibetan kings; title: Additional note to Tibetica antiqua I; title: Tibetica antiqua III. Apropos of the word Gtsug lag and the indigenous religion; title: The dating; title: Characteristics of the ancient religion; title: The sense of Gtsug and gtsug lag; title: Review of the sources; title: Appendix. The etymology of gtsug lag; title: Recapitulation; title: Tibetica antiqua IV. The tradition relative to the debut of Buddhism in Tibet; title: The religious kings and the royal laws; title: The sūtra fallen from the sky; title: Recapitulation; title: Tibetica antiqua V. The indigenous religion and the Bon po in Dunhuang manuscripts; title: Theories; title: The ancient religion; title: Bon pos and Bon; title: Theories on the antecedents of late Bon; title: The Dunhuang manuscripts and the later tradition; title: Dunhuang documents; title: Bon po in the texts translated from Chinese and bon po communities; title: Translations from Chinese; title: Bon po communities; title: Bon po and gshen, their differences and their functions; title: Gshen rab mi bo; title: Other people; title: Names and their epithets; title: Themes; title: Funerary ritual; title: Divinities; title: The word Bon alone; title: Linguistic and stylistic traits; title: Tibetica antiqua VI. Confucian maxims in two Dunhuang manuscripts; title: Annuaire 1967; title: Aspects of the sworn faith in China; title: The Bonpo cosmogonies in Tibet and near the Mosso; title: Annuaire 1968; title: Daoist texts relative to the transmission of revealed books; title: The Bonpo accounts on the beginnings of culture; title: Annuaire 1969; title: Bonpo accounts on the first men; title: Some aspects of the Daoist parishes; title: Annuaire 1970; title: Popular cults in organized Daoism; title: Elements constitutive of the Bonpo literature; title: Bibliography of Rolf A. Stein.