Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 888
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-5381-3021-6 • Hardback • 2 vol set • October 2020 • $220.00 • (£169.00)
978-1-5381-3022-3 • eBook • October 2020 • $209.00 • (£162.00)
John Powers is a Professor of Religion in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the author of seventeen books and more than 100 academic articles and book chapters, including A Bull of A Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism and The Buddha Party: How the Chinese Communist Party Works to Control Tibetan Buddhism.
David Templeman is an Adjunct Researcher at both Monash and LaTrobe Universities in Australia. He has authored several books, including most recently Asian Horizons: Giuseppe Tucci’s Buddhist, Indian, Himalayan and Central Asian Studies. as well as 60 book chapters. He is completing a translation of the Autobiography of Tāranātha a 16-17th cent. Tibetan prelate.
Editor’s Foreword, by Jon Woronoff
Acknowledgments
Reader’s Notes
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Common Phonetic Spellings and Wylie Equivalents
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
The DICTIONARY
Bibliography
About the Authors
Powers (Deakin Univ., Australia) and Templeman (Monash Univ. and La Trobe Univ., Australia) offer an updated, comprehensive dictionary that includes an informative introduction to the history of Tibet's land, people, religion, and politics, and a useful explanation of regional Tibetan language and the Wylie transliteration system. Also featured is an extensive chronology that begins at 27,000 BCE with the early Neolithic period and settlements in Chu bzang, and extends to September 2018, when the Central Tibetan Administration discussed the future of the Tibet movement. Readers will also find a helpful glossary of common phonetic spellings and Wylie transliteration equivalents; a listing of acronyms and abbreviations used throughout the book; and a thorough bibliography that is categorized by numerous subjects, including Tibetan language works, international contacts and trade, and the Mongol empire. Black-and-white maps are included at the beginning of the book, and black-and-white photographs are scattered throughout. More than 1,000 brief, alphabetical entries discuss the key events, people, social issues, foreign relations, and policies that make this vast country distinct. This two-volume set will be a valuable resource for a variety of audiences interested in Tibet or Asian studies and history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels.
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