Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua

415 Pages·2010·2.41 MB·English

by  Henk Blezerm Alex McKaym Charles Ramble

Rolf Stein’s Tibetica Antiqua
Brill’s
Tibetan Studies
Library
Edited by
Henk Blezer
Alex McKay
Charles Ramble
VOLUME 24
Rolf Stein’s Tibetica
Antiqua
With Additional Materials
By
Rolf A. Stein
Translated and edited by
Arthur P. McKeown
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2010
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stein, R. A. (Rolf Alfred), 1911–1999.
Rolf Stein’s Tibetica antiqua : with additional materials / by Rolf Stein ; translated
[and updated] by Arthur P. McKeown.
p. cm. — (Brill’s Tibetan studies library ; v. 24)
Translation of articles which originally appeared in French in the journal Bulletin
de l’Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient from 1983 to 1992, together with Stein’s
contributions to the Annuaire de college de France from 1967 to 1970.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-18338-4 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. Tibet (China)—Civilization.
2. Tibet (China)—Civilization—Sources. 3. Indigenous peoples—China—Tibet—
Religion. 4. Buddhism—China—Tibet—History. 5. Buddhism—China—Tibet—
History—Sources. 6. Taoism—China—Tibet—History. 7. Tibet (China)—Religion.
8. Buddhist literature—China—Tibet—History and criticism. 9. Tibetan language—
Texts. 10. Dunhuang Caves (China)—Antiquities. I. McKeown, Arthur P. II. Title.
III. Title: Tibetica antiqua. IV. Series.
DS786.S765 2010
294.30951’3—dc22
2009053997
ISSN 1568-6183
ISBN 978 90 04 18338 4
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CONTENTS
Preface ................................................................................................. xi
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ xix
List of Abbreviations ......................................................................... xxi
Introduction by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub .................................... xxiii
Tibetica Antiqua I The Two Vocabularies of Indo-Tibetan
and Sino-Tibetan Translations in the Dunhuang
Manuscripts .................................................................................... 1
Vocabulary ................................................................................. 19
Analysis of vocabulary ............................................................. 22
Recapitulation ............................................................................ 83
Notes on the sources ................................................................ 85
Tibetica Antiqua II The Use of Metaphors for Honorific
Distinctions in the Epoch of the Tibetan Kings ...................... 97
Additional note to Tibetica Antiqua I ....................................... 111
Tibetica Antiqua III Apropos of the Word Gtsug lag and the
Indigenous Religion ...................................................................... 117
The dating ....................................................................................... 118
Characteristics of the Ancient Religion ..................................... 121
The sense of Gtsug and Gtsug lag ............................................... 126
Review of the Sources ................................................................... 170
Appendix: The etymology of gtsug lag ....................................... 182
Recapitulation ................................................................................ 187
Tibetica Antiqua IV The Tradition Relative to the Debut of
Buddhism in Tibet ........................................................................ 191
The religious kings and the royal laws ...................................... 215
The sūtra fallen from the sky ...................................................... 220
Recapitulation ................................................................................ 229
Tibetica Antiqua V The Indigenous Religion and the Bon po
in Dunhuang Manuscripts ........................................................... 231
viii contents
Theories ........................................................................................... 231
The ancient religion .................................................................. 231
Bon pos and Bon ....................................................................... 237
Theories on the antecedents of late Bon .......................... 237
The Dunhuang manuscripts and the later tradition ........... 243
Dunhuang Documents ................................................................. 246
Bon po in the texts translated from Chinese and bon po
communities. ......................................................................... 246
Translations from Chinese .................................................. 246
Bon po communities ............................................................ 250
Bon po and gshen, their differences and their functions .... 251
Gshen rab mi bo ........................................................................ 255
Other people .............................................................................. 258
Names and their epithets ......................................................... 261
Themes ........................................................................................ 264
Funerary ritual ........................................................................... 265
Divinities .................................................................................... 267
The word Bon alone ................................................................. 268
Linguistic and stylistic traits ................................................... 269
Tibetica Antiqua VI Confucian Maxims in Two Dunhuang
Manuscripts .................................................................................... 273
Annuaire 1967 .................................................................................... 285
Aspects of the Sworn Faith in China .......................................... 285
The Bonpo Cosmogonies in Tibet and among the Mosso ........ 290
Annuaire 1968 .................................................................................... 299
Daoist texts relative to the transmission of revealed books ..... 299
The bonpo accounts on the beginnings of culture ..................... 304
Annuaire 1969 .................................................................................... 307
Bonpo accounts on the first men ................................................. 307
Some aspects of the Daoist parishes ............................................ 313
Annuaire 1970 .................................................................................... 321
Popular cults in organized Daoism ............................................. 321
Elements constitutive of the bonpo literature ............................ 328
contents ix
Bibliography of Rolf A. Stein ........................................................... 337
Select Bibliography ............................................................................ 343
Indices
General Index ................................................................................. 355
Index of Dunhuang Documents ................................................. 371
Index of Tibetan Terms ............................................................... 375
Index of Sanskrit Terms ............................................................... 380
Index of Chinese Terms ............................................................... 382