The publication contains a catalog of Tibetan texts in the Pander collection held by the Jagiellonian Library. As in every catalogue, authors present here all indispensable elements for a catalogue such as title, author, place and year of writing, scribe, description etc. by their abbreviations. In traditional Tibetan works all of this information is given at the end in a colophon. Therefore, we extracted and copied all the colophons found in these works. Oft...
"Klasyczna literatura tybetańska" pod redakcją J.I. Cabezóna i R.R. Jacksona – wybitnych tybetologów amerykańskich − od lat jest uznawana za najbardziej kompletny i najlepszy podręcznik literatury tybetańskiej.Obszerność i zasięg oddziaływania liczącej ponad 1300 lat historii literatury tybetańskiej sytuują ją wśród najważniejszych tradycji Azji. Przemożny wpływ na jej rozwój miała kultura indyjska – sanskryt i przebogate dziedzictwo tradycji buddyjskiej. Na przestrzeni wiekó...
“(...) Through an open window in one of the university buildings he chanced to observe and — having then stopped — to listen to one of Professor Stanisław Kałuzynski’s brilliant lectures. Jerzy Tulisow was then and there literally driven to enter the world of the fascinating Other: the Mongols, Turks, Manchus and other Tungusic peoples and their cultures. A window usually serves as a metaphor for opportunity, access to something and entry into another world. Let u...
The publication contains a catalog of Tibetan texts in the Pander collection held by the Jagiellonian Library. As in every catalogue, authors present here all indispensable elements for a catalogue such as title, author, place and year of writing, scribe, description etc. by their abbreviations. In traditional Tibetan works all of this information is given at the end in a colophon. Therefore, we extracted and copied all the colophons found in these works. Often in prayers th...
