Journal of the International Association for Bon Research
The Journal of the International Association for Bon Research is the yearly publication of the International Association for Bon Research, a non-profit organisation registered under the Federal Canadian Registrar. IABR-AIRB is an association dedicated to the study and the promotion of research on the Tibetan Bön religion. IABR-AIRB members are engaged in the critical analysis and research on Bön according to commonly accepted scientific criteria in scientific institutes. Digital Himalaya is honoured to host this important new scholarly journal.
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Volume 1, 2013
- Full Download (15.4 MB)
- Cover, contents, editorial (106 kb)
- Foreword (51 kb)
author: H.E. Tenzin Namdak - Preface (50 kb)
author: Chögyal Namkhai Norbu - Introduction (74 kb)
author: Per Kvaerne - Queen of the World and her Twenty-seven Daughters (368 kb)
author: Samten G. Karmay - The Bon Ka ba nag po and the Rnying ma phur pa tradition (132 kb)
author: Cathy Cantwell and Rob Mayer - Notes on the history of Bon and the Ye shes monastery in Nyag rong, Sichuan (163 kb)
author: J.F. Marc des Jardins - Revisiting the Problem of Bon Identity: Bon Priests and Ritual Practitioners in the Himalayas (137 kb)
author: Geoffrey Samuel - Where to Look For the Origins of Zhang zhung-related Scripts? (611 kb)
author: Henk Blezer, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, and Saraju Rath - Tables: Where to Look For the Origins of Zhang zhung-related Scripts? (7.8 MB)
author: Henk Blezer, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, and Saraju Rath - Knowing Zhang-zhung: The Very Idea (160 kb)
author: Dan Martin - The Unhappy Bride and Her Lament (168 kb)
author: Brandon Dotson - The naming of Tibetan religion: Bon and Chos in the Tibetan imperial period (628 kb)
author: Sam van Schaik - Tibetan Inscriptions on Ancient silver and gold Vessels and Artefacts (4.2 MB)
author: Amy Heller - Variation in mortuary practice on the early Tibetan plateau and the high Himalayas (661 kb)
author: Mark Aldenderfer - Restoring the text of a Mahāyoga tantra witnessed in Early Tibet: an early version of the 'Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa pad ma 'phreng gi don bsdud pa (137 kb)
author: Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer - Notes from the Field: Ancient Rituals in a Twilight World (323 kb)
author: Fabian Sanders