Karmay, Samten
| Wylie | bsam gtan rgyal mtshan mkhar rme'u |
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| English Phonetics | Samten Karmay |
| Sort Name | Karmay, Samten |
- bsam gtan rgyal mtshan mkhar smad
- mkhar rme'u bsam gtan
- mkhar smad bsam gtan rgyal mtshan
- Samten Gyeltsen Karmay
| Birth: | 1936 |
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Tibetan calendar dates
| Website: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samten_Karmay |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- International Association for Tibetan Studies
Biographical Information
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)
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
- Vol 1, Part VI, Chapter 29: 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)
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 Link (P7265)
- https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P7265
- Wiki Pages