Bon and Old Tibetan frontier texts: Dunhuang ritual materials, divination manuals, funeral rites, myths, law, contracts, royal inscriptions, and imperial Buddhist documents.
Folders
Cosmology and Decline Prophecies — Old Tibetan cosmological and eschatological texts on the end of the good age, moral decline, cosmic disorder, and ritual remedy. (4)
Divination and Oracles — Dunhuang divination manuals, dice oracles, coin-casting systems, deity speeches, and everyday prognostications from the Old Tibetan world. (10)
Funeral and Mortuary Rites — Old Tibetan funeral narratives, royal burial protocols, animal-offering charters, and guides to the paths and realms of the dead. (6)
Law, Contracts, and Administration — Old Tibetan legal, commercial, administrative, and judicial records from the imperial and Silk Road documentary world. (25)
Myths, Tales, and Sayings — Early Tibetan mythic narratives, folktales, divine journeys, lineage stories, and proverb collections. (4)
Ritual, Healing, and Bon-Gshen Traditions — Bon and Gshen ritual materials: healing contests, counter-sorcery, bird-lore, sacrifice polemic, and early Tibetan ritual taxonomy. (5)
Royal Inscriptions and Imperial Buddhism — Old Tibetan royal inscriptions, charters, treaties, tomb records, Buddhist imperial oaths, and dynastic memory texts. (12)
Pages
Glossary — A shelf-specific slice of the Good Works Glossary for Bon and pre-Buddhist Tibetan terms.
Introduction to Bon and Old Tibetan Traditions — A critical introduction to the Bon and Old Tibetan shelf: Dunhuang ritual manuscripts, divination, funerary rites, royal tomb ideology, law and administration, imperial Buddhist inscriptions, the Bon/Buddhist source problem, and living Yungdrung Bon.
Reader's Guide to Bon and Old Tibetan Traditions — A source-field guide to Old Tibetan manuscripts, ritual and mortuary texts, divination, law, inscriptions, Buddhist polemic, and the distinct living history of Yungdrung Bon.