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The Melodious Drumsound All-Pervading: Sacred Biography of Rwa Lotsâwa: about early Lotsawa rnam thar and chos ’byung
This article compares accounts of the life of Ra Lotsāwa (rwa lo tsA ba, 1016-1198) given in several Tibetan hagiographies (rnam thar) and religious histories (chos ‘byung). The article ...
The Development of the Biographical Tradition Concerning Atiśa (Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna)
This article probes Tibetan sources of biographic material on Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna in order to determine the origin of this literary tradition and i...
The Hagiography of Nāgārjuna
A translation of a biography (rnam thar) of the Indian Buddhist saint Nāgārjuna written by Gelong Möndrup Sherap (dge slong smon drub shes rab). The original Tibetan is given, followed by th...
On the Nature of Rnam-thar: Early Dge-lugs-pa Siddha Biographies
The article attempts to give a general definition of namtar (rnam thar) and to indicate how the genre of religious literature compares and contrasts with Western haiography. (Mark Premo-Hopkins 2004-0...
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