Description
The first part of this book contains studies of historical documents such as royal decrees of the 10th and 11th centuries A.D.
The second part deals with the history of the Bön monastic establishment, the codification of the Bon Canonical texts, and recent discoveries of ancient manuscripts of the Bon tradition that focus on the early Tibetan concepts of ritual practices.
The third part is devoted to a short presentation of a personal letter of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, founder of the modern state of Bhutan, and the question of the tulku institution in Tibet, which had marred Tibetan political unity.
