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If we are to believe later traditions, and there is in my opinion no reason not to do so, the first Tibetan historiographic writings date from Tibet's imperial period (seventh-ninth centuries), which coincided with her relations with the Nepalese, Indians, Arabs, Turks, Uighurs, 'A zha and, above all, Tang China. Only a fragment of this literary corpus, falling into two broad classes, has survived.
The Popol Vuh is a Colonial period K'iche' Mayan text that is considered to be the bible of Mayan civilization. It was transscribed by the Dominican priest Francisco Ximénez in or near 1701. It chronicles the creation of humankind, the actions of the gods, the origin and history of the K’iche’ people, and the chronology of their kings to 1550. Although written during the period of Chistianization, it is considered by scholars to be an invaluable source of knowledge about Preclassic and Classic period Mayan mythology and culture. The text itself appears to be based on an earlier but now lost version, written in K’iche’ by a Mayan author (or authors) sometime between 1554 and 1558....
In the following essays, Dreyfus provides us with a wonderful introduction to the Tibetan monastic educational system, discussing such topics as memorization, commentary, the educational curriculum, the theory and practice of debate, the schedule of monastic educational institutions, and finally the different geshé degrees awarded.1 Dreyfus’s years of experience as a scholastic monk in the Geluk tradition make his account detailed and accurate. At the same time, his first-hand familiarity with the tradition shines through in every section. His work is especially valuable in dispelling many of the myths surrounding life in Tibet’s great monastic academies.
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1833 and 1842 versions of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott."
དངོས་བཤུས་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་འཁྲབ་གཞུང་།
— མདོ་སྨད་ཁྲི་ཀ་རྫོང་དཀར་བརྗིད་ཡུལ་ཚོ་སྐེ་གཞུང་ཚོ་བཞིའི་བུ་མོར་སྐྲ་ཕབ་པའི་སྲོལ་རགས་བཀོད།
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/1219.xml
A view on the history, nomenclature, and traditional social organization of Ura, one of Bumthang district's four valleys.
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/24.xml
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/1260.xml
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/1263.xml
A practice that directly works with an ability to strengthen compassion towards people beyond an “in group” such as family, friends, and people who we perceive to be similar to us.
An exercise to focus on making one new social connection per day.
A translation of a prayer for the long life of the Fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck (b. 1955) composed by the 70th Je Khenpo Jigme Choedra.
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/1206.xml Source: deb ther sngon po Source: bka’ gdams chos ’byung gsal ba’i sgron me
An overview of the eight types of Alo, secular songs of sorrow sung solo and generally alone.
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/1269.xml
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/1270.xml
Taken from url: http://places.kmaps.virginia.edu/descriptions/77.xml