Description
In the eleventh century, a Bönpo master named Do ‘phages Yon tan rgyal mtshan established a hermitage in the rNga hog region of eastern Tibet, corresponding to modern-day rNga ba (Chinese Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. This hermitage was the nucleus of a religious center that would culminate in 1168 in the foundation of Nangshig (sNang zhig) monastery. sNang zhig has survived centuries of sectarian rivalry and political uncertainty to become the largest Bönpo monastery in the Tibetan cultural region. The result of years of textual inquiry and field-based investigation by an eminent Tibetan scholar, this volume—the first monograph of a Bönpo monastery in the PRC—represents an essential contribution to Tibet’s cultural and religious history.
