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"The Monastery Rules discusses the position of monks and monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies. Using the monastic guidelines (bca' yig) as primary sources, this book examines the impact of Buddhist monastic institutions on Tibetan societies by looking at their monastic policies that deal with organization, economy, justice, and public relations. As this type of literature has not been studied in any detail, this is also an exploration of this genre, its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The monastic guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, but also contain rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Throughout, the textual materials are supplemented with important information gained via oral history methods. This monograph demonstrates how, and to what extent, the Tibetan monastery was guided by Buddhist monastic law, and argues that Buddhist ethics, as they are understood today, played hardly any role. Still, this study argues that the monastic institutions' influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs."

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Margaret Gibson (1843-1920) was a biblical scholar credited with the discovery of a number of significant ancient manuscripts. This volume is a classification, in Greek, by Gibson of all the Arabic documents in the monastery library of St Catherine's on Mount Sinai, first published in 1894.

Christian literature, Arabic --- Arabic literature --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Monastic libraries --- Christian authors --- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai). --- Religious libraries --- Scriptoria --- Middle Eastern literature --- North African literature --- Arabic Christian literature --- Library of the Monastery of Saint Catherine --- Maktabat Dayr Sānt Kātrīn --- סט. קתרינה

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Manuscripts, Greek --- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) --- 091 <620 SINAI> --- Greek manuscripts --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Egypte--SINAI --- Dayr al-Qiddīsah Kātrīn (Mount Sinai) --- Sinaĭskiĭ monastyrʹ --- Dayr Sānt Kātrīn (Mount Sinai) --- Convent of St. Catherine (Mount Sinai) --- Monē tou Sina --- Sinai-Kloster --- Katharinenkloster auf dem Sinai --- Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs (Mount Sinai) --- Hiera Monē Hag. Aikaterinēs Sina --- Monastery of Saint Catherine (Mount Sinai) --- Monastery of Sinai --- Monastery of St. Catherine (Mount Sinai) --- Hiera Monē tou Sinai (Mount Sinai) --- Holy Monastery of St. Catherine (Mount Sinai) --- St. Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) --- St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai --- Holy Monastery of Sinai --- 091 <620 SINAI> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Egypte--SINAI --- Library of the Monastery of Saint Catherine --- Maktabat Dayr Sānt Kātrīn --- סט. קתרינה --- Library.

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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrains and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Ethnology --- Sherpa. --- Nepal --- Nepal. --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Sherpas --- Bhotia (Tibetan people) --- Cộng hòa dân chủ liên bang Nepal --- Demokratische Bundesrepublik Nepal --- Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Nepalo --- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal --- Federale Democratische Republiek Nepal --- Federativnai͡a Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika Nepal --- Federatyvna Demokratychna Respublika Nepal --- Kingdom of Nepal --- Kongeriget Nepal --- Nepā --- Nepal Adhirajya --- Nepāla --- Nepālas Federālā Demokrātiskā Republika --- Nepalgo Errepublika Demokratiko Federala --- Nepali Demokraatlik Liitvabariik --- Nepalia --- Nepalin demokraattinen liittotasavalta --- Nepalo --- Nepāru --- Ni-po-erh --- Nibo'er --- Nīpāl --- República Federal Democrática de Nepal --- República Federal Democràtica del Nepal --- République démocratique fédérale du Népal --- Respublika Nepal --- Sambandslýðveldið Nepal --- Sanghiya Loktāntrik Ganatantra Nepāl --- Savezna Demokratska Republika Nepal --- Namche Bazar (Népal) --- Lo Manthang (Népal) --- Mustang (Népal) --- Gyasumdo (Népal) --- Dolpā (Népal) --- Teraï --- Asie du Sud --- Aphorism. --- Attack dog. --- Avalokitesvara. --- Baksheesh. --- Bardo Thodol. --- Bhutan. --- Bodhi. --- Bodhicitta. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism and Hinduism. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist cosmology. --- Buddhist philosophy. --- Buddhist texts. --- Butter lamp. --- Butter tea. --- Cannibalism. --- Cargo cult. --- Cretinism. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Crossbreed. --- Dalai Lama. --- Deity. --- Doonesbury. --- Ethnography. --- Exorcism. --- Externality. --- False consciousness. --- Great Goddess. --- Heart Sutra. --- Hermann Broch. --- Heterotopia (space). --- Hillbilly. --- Himalayan Trust. --- Hungry ghost. --- Hypothyroidism. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Impermanence. --- Impossibility. --- Jargon. --- Jean Baudrillard. --- Kalachakra. --- Kathmandu. --- Khumbu. --- Madame Bovary. --- Mahayana. --- Marshall Sahlins. --- Mary Douglas. --- Michael Tobias. --- Mimesis. --- Mohan Lal (Zutshi). --- Monastery. --- Mongols. --- Mountain pass. --- Mountaineering. --- Mudra. --- Nagarjuna. --- Orientalism. --- Ownership (psychology). --- Padmasambhava. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Physician. --- Quentin Skinner. --- Racism. --- Religion. --- Rinpoche. --- Sa?sara. --- Severity (video game). --- Shamanism. --- Shangri-La. --- Sherpa people. --- Snow Lion. --- Sonam (actress). --- Spirit King. --- Sutra. --- Tantra. --- Tengboche. --- Thangka. --- The Monastery (TV series). --- Thick description. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Three Jewels. --- Tibet House. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Tibetan culture. --- Tibetan diaspora. --- Tibetan literature. --- Tibetan people. --- Transnationalism. --- Tulku. --- University of Arizona Press. --- Vajradhara. --- Vajrasattva. --- Vajrayana. --- Vihara. --- Vulture Peak. --- Wilderness medicine (practice). --- Yaksha. --- Yogi.