Unearthing Bon treasures : : life and contested legacy of a Tibetan scripture revealer, with a general bibliography of Bon / / by Dan Martin.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Volume 1
• VerfasserIn: Martin, Dan, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Köln : : Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Volume 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (495 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART ONE -- 1. The Historical Setting: Early Tibet -- 2. What Bon Is -- 3. What Treasures Are -- 4. International Buddha -- 5. Gshen-chen Klu-dga': The Earliest Historical Sources -- 6. Gshen-chen's Own Narrative -- A. History of the Gshen Ancestry -- B. The Story of the Treasures -- C. List of the Bon Scriptures -- D. How his Followers Spread -- 7. The Biography of the Bla-ma Gshen -- 8. The Biography of His Disciple Zhu-yas Legs-po -- 9. Poisoned Dialogue: Gshen-chen Klu-dga's Final Hour -- 10. The Polemical Tradition against Gshen-chen and Bon -- 11. References to Bon in Early Chos Biographical Literature -- 12. Anti-Bon Polemic since the Thirteenth Century -- 13. The Single Intention -- 14. A Polemic and Its Object -- 15. Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Tibetan Texts -- Appendix 2: A List of Revelations and Compositions of Gshen-chen Klu-dga' -- Bibliography -- PART TWO: GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: A PARTIALLY ANNOTATED LIST OF ARTICLES AND BOOKS ABOUT BON -- General Index.