Tibetan Literary Arts

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Published by Shang Shung Institute, 2007. Number of pages: VII, 72 p. Catalog for Smith College's Tibetan Literary Arts Exhibit, curated by Marit Cranmer, in honor of the visit of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso in 2007. This exhibition was a modest attempt to introduce a few of the treasures within the vast and extraordinary field of Tibetan literature. As noted in the included essays, Tibet's written tradition has a rich history full of complexity that is only recently becoming known in the West. And its poetry, valuing as it does wisdom and intrinsic awareness, stands with the great world poetry of the human spirit. Included in this book are the following lectures or writings: Tibetan Literature. Early Bon Literature. Traditional Secular Literature of Tibet. Poetry and Spiritual Experience in the Tibetan Tradition. Divinty Secularized. A Small Stone Casts its Ripple. The Transmission of Presence - The Tibetan Poetics of Ineffable Experience. The Song of The Vajra: Poem from the Nyi.zla Kha.sbyor Tantra.