Sources of Mongolian Buddhism

Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Contributors Introduction Vesna Wallace Part I: Two Early Seventeenth-Century Texts The Stone Inscription of Covtu Taiji Brian Bauman Siregetü Güüsi Corji's Treatise Containing the Complete Meanings of the Most Important [Doctrinal Concepts] to be Used Agata Bareja-Starzynska Part II: Autobiography and Biography The Autobiography of the First Khalkha Zaya Pandita Lobsang Trinley Sangseraima Ujeed Zava 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. King Part III: Buddhist Teachings A Trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb Tendar Erdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir Miscellaneous Writings of Caqar Gebsi Luvsancültem Matthew W. King Teachings of the Pious Fat Pandita Tsevelvaanchigdorji Vesna A. Wallace Mergen Gegeen's Didactic Poetry Uranchimeg Ujeed Part IV: Buddhist Didactic Poetry Buddhist Literature of Danzan Ravjaa Simon Wickham-Smith Part V: Buddhist Ritual Texts Khalkha Zaya Pandita's Smoke Offering Rituals to the Khangai Mountain Range Krisztina Teleki Ritual Texts of Mergeen Gegeen Uranchimeg Ujeed Ritual Texts of Prosperity and Purification Vesna A. Wallace Ritual Texts Dedicated to the White Old Man with Examples from the Classical Mongolian and Oirat (Clear Script) Textual Corpora Birtalan Ágnes Incense Offering to the Lord Chinggis Khan Matthew W. King Caqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's Offering Ritual to the Fire Goddess Batsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg Ushkhbayar Three Ritual Prayers by Ondor Gegeen Zanabazar Zsuzsa Mayer Part VI: Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries The Legend of Mother Tara the Green Brian Baumann Oral Historical Narratives from the Early Twentieth Century Adrienne Gecse Part VII: Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth-Century Writings Zava Damdin's "A 1931 Survey of Mongolian Monastic Colleges" Matthew W. King Agwan Dorjiev's Questions about the Past and Future of Mongolian Buddhism Matthew W. King The Internal Regulations of Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar Uranchimeg Tsultemin Agvaanyam'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 Reasoning Matthew W. King Literary Treatments of Buddhism in the Period of Transition Simon Wickham-Smith Part VIII: Contemporary Buddhist Writings Contemporary Buddhist Poetry and Fiction Simon Wickham-Smith Index