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"In 2008, an international team of climbers discovered a large collection of Tibetan manuscripts in a cave complex called Mardzong, in Nepal's remote Mustang district. The following year, the entire cache-over five thousand folios from some sixty different works of the Buddhist and Bön religions, some more than seven centuries old-were removed to the safe keeping of a monastery, where they were later examined by experts from different disciplines. This book is the result of their findings. The authors present what they have been able to discover about the content of these manuscripts, their age, the materials with which they were made, the patrons who commissioned them and the scribes and artists who created them. Contributors include: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble, Nyima Drandul Gurung, Naljor Tsering, Sarah Skumanov, Emilie Arnaud-Nguyen and Bazhen Zeren"--

Manuscripts, Tibetan --- Codicology --- Bon (Tibetan religion) --- History. --- Doctrines --- Manuscripts.

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Unique original material on the phenomenon of the spirit-mediums of Upper Tibet, the men and women who channel the gods. With extensive interviews with members of this living tradition.

Shamans --- Bon (Tibetan religion) --- Bonism --- Bonpo (Sect) --- Religions --- Medicine-man --- Medicine men --- Shaman --- Healers --- Mediums --- Rituals

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The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan) is a philosophical and meditative teaching. Its inception is attributed to Vairocana, one of the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks ordained at Samye in the eight century A.D. The doctrine is regarded among Buddhists as the core of the teachings adhered to by the Nyingmapa school whilst similarly it is held to be the fundamental teaching among the Bonpos, the non-Buddhist school in Tibet. After a historical introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon, the author deals with the legends of Vairocana (Part I), analysing early documents containing essential elements of the doctrine and comparing them with the Ch'an tradition. He goes on to explore in detail the development of the doctrine in the tenth and eleventh centuries A.D. (Part II). The Tantric doctrines that play an important role are dealt with, as are the rDzogs chen theories in relation to the other major Buddhist doctrines. Different trends in the rDzogs chen tradition are described in Part III. The author has drawn his sources mainly from early unpublished documents which throw light on the origins and development, at the same time also using a variety of sources which enabled him to explicate the crucial position which the doctrine occupies in Tibetan religions.

Rdzogs-chen --- Rdzogs-chen. --- Rdzogs-chen (Bonpo) --- Spiritual life --- Atiyoga --- Dzogchen --- Dzogschen --- Rdsogs-chen --- Rdzogs-chen (Rñiṅ-ma-pa) --- Rdzogs-pa-chen-pa --- Bon (Tibetan religion) --- Rnying-ma-pa (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Rdzogs-chen - Bon (Tibetan religion)

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New Bon promises to become an important focus of interest among academic Tibetologists in the coming years. This unique, first-ever English-language volume on Tibet's New Bon religion (14th century onwards) contains the full catalogue of the collected rediscovered teachings revealed by bDe chen gling pa, an important Bon po master of the second part of the 19th century in Eastern Tibet. Belonging to a later period of development within the various lineages of New Bon, bDe chen gling stands as an essential link between this tradition and that of the Ris med movement of the late 19th century. The annotated catalogue of the thirteen volume collection mostly covers tantric and rDzogs chen (Great Perfection) texts barely known outside native libraries.

Bon (Tibetan religion) --- Bonism --- Bonpo (Sect) --- Religions --- Doctrines --- Rituals --- Bde-chen-gliṅ-pa, --- Triten Norbutse Monastery (Kathmandu, Nepal) --- Gter-ston Bde-chen-gliṅ-pa,

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This careful study of the co-existence over time of Buddhism and shamanism among the Lhopo (Bhutia) people of Sikkim sheds new light on their supposedly hostile relationship. It examines the working relationships between Buddhist lamas and practitioners of bon , taking into consideration the sacred history of the land as well as its more recent political and economic transformation. Their interactions are presented in terms of the contexts in which lamas and shamans meet, these being rituals of the sacred land, of the individual and household, and of village and state. Village lamas and shamans are shown to share a conceptual view of reality which is at the base of their amiable coexistence. In contrast to the hostility which, the recent literature suggests, characterizes the lama-shaman relationship, their association reveals that the real confrontation occurs when village Buddhism is challenged by its conventional counterpart.

Bhotia (Tibetan people) --- Bon (Tibetan religion) --- Buddhism --- Lamas --- Shamans --- Medicine-man --- Medicine men --- Shaman --- Healers --- Mediums --- Buddhist priests --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Bonism --- Bonpo (Sect) --- Bhotanik (Tibetan people) --- Bhote (Tibetan people) --- Bhotias (Tibetan people) --- Bhotiya (Tibetan people) --- Bhutia (Tibetan people) --- Shauka (Tibetan people) --- Ethnology --- Tibetans --- Religion. --- Buddhism. --- Bon. --- Relations