Karmay, Samten: Difference between revisions

From Tsadra Commons
Karmay, Samten
m (Text replace - "publicationtype" to "classification")
 
No edit summary
(5 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Person
|HasDrlPage=Yes
|HasLibPage=Yes
|MainNamePhon=Samten Karmay
|SortName=Karmay, Samten
|namefirst=Samten
|namelast=Karmay
|MainNameTib=བསམ་གཏན་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཁར་རྨེའུ་
|MainNameWylie=bsam gtan rgyal mtshan mkhar rme'u
|bio=Samten G. Karmay is one of Tibet’s foremost scholars. Karmay was born in Amdo Province and attended a local Bonpo monastery from ages eight to fourteen. He then followed a three-year course of Dzogchen meditation at Kyangthang Monastery. At twenty he obtained the Geshe degree and took further studies at Drepung.


== Names ==
In 1959 Samten and his family left Tibet and settled briefly in India. From 1961 to 1964, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he earned an M. Phil. degree for his thesis on Bon history, and then a Ph.D. for his thesis on the origin and development of Dzogchen in Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
'''Tibetan:''' <span class=TibetanUnicode20>བསམ་གཏན་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཁརསྨད་</span><br>
'''Wylie:'''<br>
*[[bsam gtan rgyal mtshan mkhar smad]]<br>


'''Other Transliterations in use:'''<br>
In 1980 he entered the National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris, where he became the Director of Research in history and anthropology. In 1996 he was elected President of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. He has written a number of books on Tibetan religions, including a book on the Fifth Dalai Lama. ([https://www.tibetwrites.in/authors/samten-g-karmay/ Source: TibetWrites])
*[[Samten Karmay]]<br>
|PersonType=Professors; Translators
*[[Samten Gyeltsen Karmay]]<br>
|associatedwebsite=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_Karmay
*[[Karmay, Samten G.]]<br>
|images=File:Karmey-Samten.jpg
*samten g. ka.rma y<br>
|BdrcLink=https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P7265
*[[bsam-gtan rgyal-mtshan mkhar-rme'u]]<br>
|BdrcPnum=7265
*[[bsam-gtan rgyal-mtshan mkhar-smad]]<br>
|namealt=Samten Gyeltsen Karmay
== Dates ==
|AltNamesWylie=bsam gtan rgyal mtshan mkhar smad; mkhar rme'u bsam gtan; mkhar smad bsam gtan rgyal mtshan;
Born: 1936<br>
|yearbirth=1936
Died: <br>
|publications='''A Selection of Published Works: '''
== Affiliation ==


== Education ==
*2014. The Illusive Play: The Autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama. By Ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho. Chicago: Serindia Publications.
*2009. “A new discovery of Ancient Bon Manuscripts from a Buddhist stūpa in Southern Tibet.” East and West 59.1-4: 55-86.
*2008. Religion and Politics: commentary, Where Tibetans Write, September 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20160305233421/http://www.tibetwrites.org/?religion-and-politics-commentary
*2007. The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan),A Philosophical and Meditative Teaching of Tibetan Buddhism, Brill.
* 2007. Bon, The Magic Word: the indigenous religion of Tibet
*2003. A Survey of Bonpo Monasteries and Temples in Tibet and the Himalaya, co-authored with Yasuhiko Nagano, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
*2000. New Horizons in Bon Studies, co-authored with Yasuhiko Nagano, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
*1998. The Arrow and the Spindle: Studies in History, Myths, Rituals and Beliefs in Tibet. Kathmandu: Mandala Book
**Vol 1, Part VI, Chapter 29: [http://info-buddhism.com/The_Great_5th-Dalai_Lama-Ngagwang_Lobzang_Gyatso_Samten_Karmay.html The Fifth Dalai Lama and his Reunification of Tibet], pp. 503-517.
*Karmay, Samten G. (1998 [1980]). “The Ordinance of lHa Bla-ma Ye-shes-’od.” In The Arrow and the Spindle. Kathmandu: Mandala. 3–16.
*Karmay, Samten G. (1998 [1983]). “Early Evidence for the Existence of Bon as a Religion in the Royal Period.” In The Arrow and the Spindle. Kathmandu: Mandala. 157–166.
*1991. Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama: The Gold Manuscript in the Fournier Collection Musée Guimet, Paris, Serindia Publications.
*1989. Kairocana and the rGyud-bzhi. Tibetan Medicine, a Publication for the Study of Tibetan Medicine, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives: Dharamsala 1989
*1988. Little Luminous Boy. The Oral Tradition from the Land of Zhang Zhung, White Orchid Press.
*1977. A Catalogue of Bonpo Publications, Tokyo: Toyo Bunko.
*1972. The Treasury of Sayings: a Tibetan History of Bon. London, OUP 1972 [London Oriental Series, volume 26]. (Reprint by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 2001)


== Other Biographical Information ==
Some Works on BDRC:
[http://www.tibetwrites.org/?_Samten-G-Karmay_ Karmay's page on Tibet Writes.org]
*mda' dang 'phang/ mkhar rme'u bsam gtan gyi gsung rtsom phyogs bsgrigs (2) [http://tbrc.org/link?RID=W1KG5775 TBRC]
 
*btsan po lha sras dar ma dang de'i rjes su byung ba'i rgyal rabs mdor bsdus [http://tbrc.org/link?RID=W00KG09750 TBRC]
Samten Gyeltsen Karmay (bsam-gtan rgyal-mtshan mkhar-rme'u) (1936-) is a writer and researcher in the field of Tibetan Studies. His work is focused on the study of Tibetan myths, beliefs, Bon religion and religious history.
*The Diamond Isle : a catalogue of buddhist writings in the library of ogyen choling, bhutan [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W1KG16738 W1KG16738 TBRC]
 
|affiliation=International Association for Tibetan Studies
Samten Gyeltsen was born in 1936 in Sharkhog, eastern Tibet. He received religious training in Dzogchen meditation from his uncle. He completed his studies in the Bon monastery in 1955, obtaining the degree of Geshe, and left with a group of friends to the Gelugpa monastery of Drepung, near Lhasa. The monastery was known for its high philosophical training.
|BuNayDefProvComplex=No
After leaving Drepung due to the difficult political situation, Samten moved to Nepal and later to India. After working for some time in Delhi, he was invited to England by David Snellgrove under a Rockefeller fellowship. Upon moving to Europe, he assumed the surname Karmay. He studied under two mentors, Snellgrove and Rolf Stein, who both recognized Samten's knowledge of Tibetan texts. He earned an M. Phil degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
|BuNayWheelTurnComplex=No
In 1980 he moved to France, where he entered the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). During his time there, he was awarded with the CNRS Silver Medal for his contribution to Human Sciences. A number of Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines was dedicated to him in November 2008. He also held the post of the President of the International Association of Tibetan Studies between 1995 and 2000, being the first Tibetan to be elected to the post. In 2005 he was a visiting professor at the International Institute for Asian Studies, under the sponsorship of Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_Karmay Source]
|BuNayYogaMadhyaComplex=No
 
|BuNayZhenRangComplex=No
[http://tbrc.org/link?RID=P7265 TBRC RID: P7265]
|BuNayVehiclesComplex=No
 
|BuNayAnalyticMeditComplex=No
== Main Students ==
|BuNayEmptyLuminComplex=No
 
|IsInGyatsa=No
== Main Teachers ==
 
== Quotes ==
 
== Writings About {{PAGENAME}} ==
 
== Writings ==
{{Person
|classification=People
|classification=People
}}
}}
{{Footer}}  
{{Footer}}
*mda' dang 'phang/ mkhar rme'u bsam gtan gyi gsung rtsom phyogs bsgrigs (2) [http://tbrc.org/link?RID=W1KG5775 TBRC]
*btsan po lha sras dar ma dang de'i rjes su byung ba'i rgyal rabs mdor bsdus [http://tbrc.org/link?RID=W00KG09750 TBRC]

Revision as of 17:02, 10 December 2021

Karmey-Samten.jpg
PersonType Category:Professors
Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst Samten
LastName / namelast Karmay
MainNamePhon Samten Karmay
MainNameTib བསམ་གཏན་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཁར་རྨེའུ་
MainNameWylie bsam gtan rgyal mtshan mkhar rme'u
SortName Karmay, Samten
AltNamesWylie bsam gtan rgyal mtshan mkhar smad  ·  mkhar rme'u bsam gtan  ·  mkhar smad bsam gtan rgyal mtshan
namealt Samten Gyeltsen Karmay
bio Samten G. Karmay is one of Tibet’s foremost scholars. Karmay was born in Amdo Province and attended a local Bonpo monastery from ages eight to fourteen. He then followed a three-year course of Dzogchen meditation at Kyangthang Monastery. At twenty he obtained the Geshe degree and took further studies at Drepung.

In 1959 Samten and his family left Tibet and settled briefly in India. From 1961 to 1964, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he earned an M. Phil. degree for his thesis on Bon history, and then a Ph.D. for his thesis on the origin and development of Dzogchen in Tibetan Buddhist traditions.

In 1980 he entered the National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris, where he became the Director of Research in history and anthropology. In 1996 he was elected President of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. He has written a number of books on Tibetan religions, including a book on the Fifth Dalai Lama. (Source: TibetWrites)

YearBirth 1936
associatedwebsite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_Karmay
affiliation International Association for Tibetan Studies
publications A Selection of Published Works:
  • 2014. The Illusive Play: The Autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama. By Ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho. Chicago: Serindia Publications.
  • 2009. “A new discovery of Ancient Bon Manuscripts from a Buddhist stūpa in Southern Tibet.” East and West 59.1-4: 55-86.
  • 2008. Religion and Politics: commentary, Where Tibetans Write, September 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20160305233421/http://www.tibetwrites.org/?religion-and-politics-commentary
  • 2007. The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan),A Philosophical and Meditative Teaching of Tibetan Buddhism, Brill.
  • 2007. Bon, The Magic Word: the indigenous religion of Tibet
  • 2003. A Survey of Bonpo Monasteries and Temples in Tibet and the Himalaya, co-authored with Yasuhiko Nagano, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
  • 2000. New Horizons in Bon Studies, co-authored with Yasuhiko Nagano, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
  • 1998. The Arrow and the Spindle: Studies in History, Myths, Rituals and Beliefs in Tibet. Kathmandu: Mandala Book
  • Karmay, Samten G. (1998 [1980]). “The Ordinance of lHa Bla-ma Ye-shes-’od.” In The Arrow and the Spindle. Kathmandu: Mandala. 3–16.
  • Karmay, Samten G. (1998 [1983]). “Early Evidence for the Existence of Bon as a Religion in the Royal Period.” In The Arrow and the Spindle. Kathmandu: Mandala. 157–166.
  • 1991. Secret Visions of the Fifth Dalai Lama: The Gold Manuscript in the Fournier Collection Musée Guimet, Paris, Serindia Publications.
  • 1989. Kairocana and the rGyud-bzhi. Tibetan Medicine, a Publication for the Study of Tibetan Medicine, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives: Dharamsala 1989
  • 1988. Little Luminous Boy. The Oral Tradition from the Land of Zhang Zhung, White Orchid Press.
  • 1977. A Catalogue of Bonpo Publications, Tokyo: Toyo Bunko.
  • 1972. The Treasury of Sayings: a Tibetan History of Bon. London, OUP 1972 [London Oriental Series, volume 26]. (Reprint by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 2001)

Some Works on BDRC:

  • mda' dang 'phang/ mkhar rme'u bsam gtan gyi gsung rtsom phyogs bsgrigs (2) TBRC
  • btsan po lha sras dar ma dang de'i rjes su byung ba'i rgyal rabs mdor bsdus TBRC
  • The Diamond Isle : a catalogue of buddhist writings in the library of ogyen choling, bhutan W1KG16738 TBRC
BDRC https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P7265
IsInGyatsa No
Other wikis

Template:Footer

Retrieved from "https://commons.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Karmay,_Samten&oldid=67377"