Book
The religion of Tibet
Clarendon Press • Oxford, England • Published In 1931 • Pages:
By: Bell, Charles Alfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book '...attempts to describe, firstly, how Buddhism, in a late and strange form, came to Tibet and was there developed to suit the needs of an exceptional country and people; and, secondly, how for several centuries and down to the present day, it dominates the Tibetan nation. About three-fourths of the material set out in these pages is new: i.e., valuable books and manuscripts given...[the author] by the Dalai Lama, the Pan-chen Rim-po-che (Ta-shi Lama), and others, as well as conversations with leading Tibetans in Lhasa and elsewhere.' Material may be found here on the history of religion in Tibet from the early Ponism to Buddhism, the lives and teachings of various teachers and prophets, and the position of the priests in Tibetan society and in the government of the country. The book concludes with information on the Dalai Lama and with a list of the sources used in this work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Theological systems
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- Ruth Heffner; Ben Zimmerman ; 1952 ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1907-1921
- 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)
- not specified
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Charles Bell
- Includes bibliography and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tibet (China)--Religion