Virtanen riika (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 154 Figure.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 332 p. Includes: illustrations, bibliography. The purpose of this study is to discuss the images in the literary works of Dhondup Gyal (1953-1985). This Tibetan writer from Amdo played a significant role in the beginning stage of modern Tibetan literature in the 1980s and he is regarded as the founder of modern Tibetan literature. Rich imagery is characteristic to Dhondup Gyal's writings and there is a real wealth of imagery both in his poems and prose. A special feature of Gyal's style of writing is that he wrote using many styles: part of his poetry uses more traditional structural and metric forms and part of it is written in modern free verse. Nature imagery is especially prominent and his writings contain images of flowers and plants, animals, water, wind and clouds, the heavenly bodies and other environmental elements.…

Black and white line illustrations, 154pp, notes, appendices, bibliography, edges little browned, bumped at head of spine, corners trifle creased, a good paperback copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 242 pp., illustrations, bibliography. Articles: Ruth Gamble, "Looking over at the Mountains": Sense of place in the Third Karmapa's "Songs of Experience"; Tiina Hyytiäinen, Repkong Tantric Practitioners and Their Environment: Observing the vow of not taking life; Klaus Karttunen, Toes and Heels Tormented by Hardened Snow; Pekka Lehtisalo, Holy Grounds: Landscapes in Tibetan thangka paintings; Nakza Drolma (Zhuoma), Pilgrimage to Brag dkar sprel rdzong: Presentation and translation of a pilgrimage guide; Juha-Pekka Reilin, The Main Factors of Biodiversity Changes in East Tibet; Thupten K. Rikey, The Nature-Deities of Tibet: A discussion on the tale "The Subduing and Putting under Oath of Tibet's Malignant lha 'dre" in Padma bka' thang; Reena Amatya Shrestha, Xiang Huang & Mika Sillanpää, Effects of Urbanization on Water Quality of the Bagmati River in Katmandu Valley, Nepal; Jaakko Takkinen, Medicine in India and Tibet - Reflections on Buddhism and nature; Pilvi Vainonen, Making Museum Collections: Missionary Hilja Heiskanen's Himalayan artefacts; Riika J. Virtanen, Dhondup Gyal and Nature: Interpreting poetic images of wind and cloud in two Tibetan works; Juha Janhunen, Correctness and Controversies in Asian Historiography.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. xiii, 332 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm. The purpose of this study is to discuss the images in the literary works of Dhondup Gyal (1953&1985). This Tibetan writer from Amdo played a significant role in the beginning stage of modern Tibetan literature in the 1980s and he is regarded as the founder of modern Tibetan literature. Rich imagery is characteristic to Dhondup Gyal's writings and there is a real wealth of imagery both in his poems and prose. A special feature of Gyal's style of writing is that he wrote using many styles: part of his poetry uses more traditional structural and metric forms and part of it is written in modern free verse. Nature imagery is especially prominent and his writings contain images of flowers and plants, animals, water, wind and clouds, the heavenly bodies and other environmental elements.…