Book
Tibet and the Tibetans
Stanford University Press • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1953 • Pages:
By: Shên, Tsung-lien, Liu, Shên-chi, Taylor, George E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book based on the authors' personal experiences as Chinese representatives in Tibet, deals with Lamaism, Lama government, the life of the people, and the calendric festivals. These sections are preceded by a brief historical survey of Tibet's past. Detailed descriptions of life and the courses of study in the lamaseries, of the governmental structure, and of the author's impressions of Tibetan life are included. The authors confine their observations to the Ge-Lu-Pa (Yellow) Sect and to Lhasa, with only incidental references to the other sects and to other parts of Tibet. As the book is aimed at the general public, transliteration of Tibetan names and terms do not follow the standard system. The text of the Sino-Tibetan Agreement of 1951 is included in the appendix.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Prophets and ascetics
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tibetans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Samuel Chu ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1944-1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tibet
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Tsung-lien Shên and Shên-chi Liu ; foreword by George E. Taylor
- Includes bibliography (p. 194)and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 52005973
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tibet (China)--Religion