Tibetan Ritual

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Written Texts at the Juncture of the Local and the Global: Some Anthropological Considerations on a Local Corpus of Tantric Ritual Manuals (Lower Mustang, Nepal), Nicolas Sihle 2. Tibetan Indigenous Myths and Rituals with Reference to the Ancient Bon Text: The Nyenbum (Gnyan`bum), 53 Samten G. Karmay 3. Continuity and Change in Tibetan MahSyoga Ritual: Some Evidence from the Tabzhag (Thabs zhags) Manuscript and Other Dunhuang Texts, 69 Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell 4. The Convergence of Theoretical and Practical Concerns in a Single Verse of the Guhyasam&ja Tantra, 89 Yael Bentor 5. Chilu (`Chi bslu): Rituals for "Deceiving Death", 103 Irmgard Mengele 6. Representations of Efficacy: The Ritual Expulsion of Mongol Armies in the Consolidation and Expansion of the Tsang (Gtsang) Dynasty, 131 James Gentry 7. The "Calf`s Nipple" (Be`u bum) of Ju Mipam (`Ju Mi pham): A Handbook of Tibetan Ritual Magic, 165 Bryan J. Cuevas 8. Rites of the Deity Tamdrin (Rta mgrin) in Contemporary Bon: Transforming Poison and Eliminating Noxious Spirits with Burning Stones, 187 Marc desjardins 9. Texts as Deities: Mongols` Rituals of Worshipping Sutras and Rituals of Accomplishing Various Goals by Means of Sutras, 207 Vesna Wallace 10. The Ritual Veneration of Mongolia`s Mountains, 225 Jared Lindahl 11. Encounter with a Dream: Bhutanese Pilgrims in Tibet-Performing a Ritual?, 249 Francoise Pommaret