This volume focuses upon the relationships between the past and the present evoked in Tibetan literature, offering diverse perspectives on a critical period whe

This volume provides essential readings in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Tibetan literary studies. Chapters range from discussions of individual conte

These essential readings in the emerging field of Tibetan literary studies offer specialists and non-specialists provocative new studies of contemporary Tibetan

The papers in this volume all result from field work in the Indian Himalayas and the TAR conducted by the Interdisciplinary Research Unit, Austrian Science Fund

The papers provide access for the first time to Tibetan documents and practices from the period of the tenth to fifteenth century.