Sources of Mongolian Buddhism

Vesna A. Wallace is Professor of South Asian Religions and Inner Asian Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has authored and translated four books on Indian Buddhism. Her most recent book is an edited volume on Mongolian Buddhism titled Buddhism in Mongolian Culture, History, and Society.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationContributorsIntroductionVesna WallacePart I: Two Early Seventeenth-Century TextsThe Stone Inscription of Covtu TaijiBrian BaumanSiregetü Güüsi Corji's Treatise Containing the Complete Meanings of the Most Important [Doctrinal Concepts] to be UsedAgata Bareja-StarzynskaPart II: Autobiography and BiographyThe Autobiography of the First Khalkha Zaya Pandita Lobsang TrinleySangseraima UjeedZava Damdin's Beautifying Ornament for the Mind of the Faithful: A Praise-Biography of my Root Lama Vajradhara, He Who Possesses the Three Types of Kindness, the Great Madapandita Endowed with Excellent Discipline and Learning Named "Sanjaa"Matthew W. KingPart III: Buddhist TeachingsA Trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb TendarErdenebaatar Erdene-OchirMiscellaneous Writings of Caqar Gebsi LuvsancültemMatthew W. KingTeachings of the Pious Fat Pandita TsevelvaanchigdorjiVesna A. WallaceMergen Gegeen's Didactic PoetryUranchimeg UjeedPart IV: Buddhist Didactic PoetryBuddhist Literature of Danzan RavjaaSimon Wickham-SmithPart V: Buddhist Ritual TextsKhalkha Zaya Pandita's Smoke Offering Rituals to the Khangai Mountain RangeKrisztina TelekiRitual Texts of Mergeen GegeenUranchimeg UjeedRitual Texts of Prosperity and PurificationVesna A. WallaceRitual Texts Dedicated to the White Old Man with Examples from the Classical Mongolian and Oirat (Clear Script) Textual CorporaBirtalan ÁgnesIncense Offering to the Lord Chinggis KhanMatthew W. KingCaqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's Offering Ritual to the Fire GoddessBatsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg UshkhbayarThree Ritual Prayers by Ondor Gegeen ZanabazarZsuzsa MayerPart VI: Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries The Legend of Mother Tara the GreenBrian BaumannOral Historical Narratives from the Early Twentieth CenturyAdrienne GecsePart VII: Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth-Century WritingsZava Damdin's "A 1931 Survey of Mongolian Monastic Colleges"Matthew W. KingAgwan Dorjiev's Questions about the Past and Future of Mongolian BuddhismMatthew W. KingThe Internal Regulations of Gandan Monastery in UlaanbaatarUranchimeg TsulteminAgvaanyam's "The Origin of Human Beings and the Holy Dharma Kings and Ministers in Mongol Lands," from The History of the Dharma, The Lamp of Scriptures and ReasoningMatthew W. KingLiterary Treatments of Buddhism in the Period of TransitionSimon Wickham-SmithPart VIII: Contemporary Buddhist WritingsContemporary Buddhist Poetry and FictionSimon Wickham-SmithIndex

This volume constitutes an excellent window into this understudied field.