Sources of Mongolian Buddhism

Vesna A. Wallace is Professor of South Asian Religions and Inner Asian Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has authored and translated four books on Indian Buddhism. Her most recent book is an edited volume on Mongolian Buddhism titled Buddhism in Mongolian Culture, History, and Society.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Contributors

Introduction
Vesna Wallace

Part I: Two Early Seventeenth-Century Texts

The Stone Inscription of Covtu Taiji
Brian Bauman

Siregetü Güüsi Corji's Treatise Containing the Complete Meanings of the Most Important [Doctrinal Concepts] to be Used
Agata Bareja-Starzynska

Part II: Autobiography and Biography

The Autobiography of the First Khalkha Zaya Pandita Lobsang Trinley
Sangseraima Ujeed

Zava Damdin's Beautifying Ornament for the Mind of the Faithful: A Praise-Biography of my Root Lama Vajradhara, He Who Possesses the Three Types of Kindness, the Great Madapandita Endowed with Excellent Discipline and Learning Named "Sanjaa"
Matthew W. King

Part III: Buddhist Teachings

A Trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb Tendar
Erdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir

Miscellaneous Writings of Caqar Gebsi Luvsancültem
Matthew W. King

Teachings of the Pious Fat Pandita Tsevelvaanchigdorji
Vesna A. Wallace

Mergen Gegeen's Didactic Poetry
Uranchimeg Ujeed

Part IV: Buddhist Didactic Poetry

Buddhist Literature of Danzan Ravjaa
Simon Wickham-Smith

Part V: Buddhist Ritual Texts

Khalkha Zaya Pandita's Smoke Offering Rituals to the Khangai Mountain Range
Krisztina Teleki

Ritual Texts of Mergeen Gegeen
Uranchimeg Ujeed

Ritual Texts of Prosperity and Purification
Vesna A. Wallace

Ritual Texts Dedicated to the White Old Man with Examples from the Classical Mongolian and Oirat (Clear Script) Textual Corpora
Birtalan Ágnes

Incense Offering to the Lord Chinggis Khan
Matthew W. King

Caqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's Offering Ritual to the Fire Goddess
Batsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg Ushkhbayar

Three Ritual Prayers by Ondor Gegeen Zanabazar
Zsuzsa Mayer

Part VI: Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

The Legend of Mother Tara the Green
Brian Baumann

Oral Historical Narratives from the Early Twentieth Century
Adrienne Gecse

Part VII: Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth-Century Writings

Zava Damdin's "A 1931 Survey of Mongolian Monastic Colleges"
Matthew W. King

Agwan Dorjiev's Questions about the Past and Future of Mongolian Buddhism
Matthew W. King

The Internal Regulations of Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar
Uranchimeg Tsultemin

Agvaanyam's "The Origin of Human Beings and the Holy Dharma Kings and Ministers in Mongol Lands," from The History of the Dharma, The Lamp of Scriptures and Reasoning
Matthew W. King

Literary Treatments of Buddhism in the Period of Transition
Simon Wickham-Smith

Part VIII: Contemporary Buddhist Writings

Contemporary Buddhist Poetry and Fiction
Simon Wickham-Smith

Index