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1	The Life Stories of Padmasambhava and their Significance for Tibetan Buddhists Hughes, Stuart January 2013 (has links) This works seeks to examine a small selection of biographies of Padmasambhava, the figure who introduced and spread the Buddhist teachings in Tibet during the eighth century. These writings appear to have a function that goes beyond merely recounting the details of Padmasambhava’s life and works. Two of these functions – the transmission of various teachings and support for the Tibetan identity – have been the main focus for my investigation. Padmasambhava Tibetan Buddhism biographies Terma-treasure Tibetan identity Humanities Humaniora Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Filosofi, etik och religion Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
2	Exotický druhý a formování tibetského Já: studie k moderní tibetské narativní próze 80. let 20.století / The exotic other and negotiation of Tibetian self: a study of modern Tibetian fiction of the 1980s Hladíková, Kamila January 2011 (has links) (ENGLISH) Proposed dissertation examines a so-far less discussed topic of modern Tibetan literature, which is for the purpose of this study defined ethnically, not as based on language of literary creation. Because of specific socio-historical and cultural conditions, modern literature in the Western sense has not emerged in Tibet until the second half of the 20th century. The emergence of modern Tibetan literature was, as in case of genesis of other Asian modern-style literatures, initiated by an encounter with another culture (i.e. 'Western', 'rational', 'scientific' worldview, which was in case of Tibet introduced through the communist China). In the beginning of the 1980s, this process was de facto enforced by the need (of Chinese as well as Tibetan elites) to establish this literature as an authentic Tibetan voice, affirming their will to modernization through Tibet's belonging to the PRC. At the same time, modern Tibetan literature emerged in a period of certain liberalization after the Cultural Revolution, which in Tibet manifested as a kind of 'national revival', oriented specifically on restoration of religion and related cultural heritage. During that period this literature thus served two seemingly contradictory interests. In Tibetan society it played mainly enlightening and didactic...
3	THE TRANSFORMATION OF TIBETAN ARTISTS' IDENTITIES FROM 1959-PRESENT DAY Meno, Michelle Elizabeth 14 December 2012 (has links) No description available. Art History Asian Studies History Contemporary Tibetan Art Tibetan Art Protest Art Tibetan Art Identity Modern Tibet Contemporary Tibetan Identity Tibetan Art History Gonkar Gyatso Gade Dedron Norbu Tsering Jhamsang Socialist Art Communist China Tibetan Romanticism

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