Brandon Dotson
Biographic Data
| ID | 541231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon Dotson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon |
| FAMILY NAME | Dotson |
| SIGNATURE | DOTSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6376-6963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet
The result of the authors’ painstaking documentation of over 1,500 Tibetan copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life from Dunhuang, now kept in the British Library’s Stein Collection, this book provides a detailed study of the sutra copies, how they were produced for the Tibetan emperor in ninth-century Dunhuang, and how they were conserved in twentieth-century England. It explores the lives of Dunhuang’s multi-ethnic scribes, editors, and administra…
Hunting for fortune. Wild animals, goddesses and the play of perspectives in early Tibetan dice divination
Le cerf, l'antilope, la gazelle et d'autres animaux sauvages sont au cœur de la divination par les dés dans le Tibet ancien. On les trouve dans les présages successifs d’environ deux douzaines de manuscrits de divination par les dés des ixe et xe siècles, retrouvés à Dunhuang, Turfan et autres sites occupés par les Tibétains le long de la route sud de la soie aux viiie et ixe siècles. En plus des cerfs, kiang et yaks, diverses espèces d’oiseaux e…
The Horse and the Grass-Grazing Man
On "personal protective deities" ('go ba'i lha) and the Old Tibetan verb 'go
The 'go ba'i lha - usually translated with "personal protective deities" - are often approached as an integral part of Tibetan popular or folk religion. Typically five in number, these gods are said to be born with an individual, to reside in his or her body, and to protect various facets of his or her existence. As for the etymology of 'go ba'i lha, while "protective deities" is the dominant translation, it remains a highly communicative and con…
"Misspelling "Buddha
Drawing on the archival study of over 1,600 copies of the TibetanAparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtra(Tib.:Tshe dpag du myed pa'i mdo) produced in Dunhuang from the 820s to the 840s and now kept in the British Library, this article sheds light on the orthographic norms of Middle Old Tibetan writing. Based on editors' corrections, and on a corpus of nearly 200 transcribed explicits, the article compares the orthographic norms of this group of sutras w…
Naming the King
Cet article examine trois actes d’appellation et leur rôle dans la transformation (de prince à roi, de roi à ancêtre et d’ancêtre à lieu de mémoire) des rois du Tibet ainsi que la place tenue par ces souverains par rapport à leurs sujets. Le premier acte de désignation consacre le passage du statut de prince à celui de roi. Il est l’un des seuls rituels que l’on puisse identifier avec certitude comme étant un élément central de l’intronisation d’…
At the Behest of the Mountain
Old Tibetan Studies, edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is an inquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The volume is written with the intent to confront facts and textualization and contribute to the clarification of particular aspects of the administrative and legislative organization, the ecclesiastical institution, and the religious, monastic, intellectual and material culture of Old Tibet and its …
The Old Tibetan Annals
The Old Tibetan Annals contain Tibet ́s oldest extant history. Primarily a bureaucratic register of events, it is the single most reliable source for the history of the first half of the Tibetan Empire (c. 600â 850 CE). This record was maintained more or less contemporaneously with the events it describes, with entries added at the end of each year from 650 to 764. In each yearly entry, the Old Tibetan Annals record information such as the summer…
Divination and law in the Tibetan Empire
This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part offers a brief introduction to Old Tibetan law in order to locate the Old Tibetan legal document from Dunhuang, IOL Tib J 740 within the Tibetan legal tradition. Part two treats the physical features of the document, its orthography and structure. It also underlines the relationship between the divination manual and the legal text, and considers briefly the role of divination in Tibetan law…
Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet
The study of the rise and institutions of the Tibetan empire of the seventh to ninth centuries, and of the continuing development of Tibetan civilization during the obscure period that followed, have aroused growing interest among scholars of Inner Asia in recent decades. The six contributions presented here represent refinements in substance and method characterizing current work in this area. A chapter by Brandon Dotson provides a new perspecti…
Sørensen, Per K., Guntram Hazod, in cooperation with Tsering Gyalbo, Thundering Falcon: An Inquiry into the History and Cult of Khra-`brug. Tibet’s First Buddhist Temple
Thundering Falcon, the second collaborative effort from the same research team that produced the excellent work, Civilization at the Foot of Mount Sham-po, continues the work of Per Sørensen, Guntram Hazod and Tsering Gyalbo in the heartland of Tibetan culture in and around Yar-lung and ’Phyong-po. Taking Khra-’brug Temple as their jumping-off point, Sørensen et al. bring their immense historical and geographical knowledge to bear on various issu…
A Note on Żaṅ
Cet article analyse le sens du terme de parente źan employe en tant qu'appellation des parents maternels de la lignee des rois tibetains (c.600-c.850). L'analyse de textes tibetains de Dunhuang et des edits royaux, dans lesquels zan designe generalement l'oncle maternel ou le beau-pere, revele certaines principes regissant les alliances avec la lignee royale. Ainsi l'un clan aristocratique peut etre autorise a reclamer le titre de źan lorsque l'u…
A Note on Żaṅ
Cet article analyse le sens du terme de parente źan employe en tant qu'appellation des parents maternels de la lignee des rois tibetains (c.600-c.850). L'analyse de textes tibetains de Dunhuang et des edits royaux, dans lesquels zan designe generalement l'oncle maternel ou le beau-pere, revele certaines principes regissant les alliances avec la lignee royale. Ainsi l'un clan aristocratique peut etre autorise a reclamer le titre de źan lorsque l'u…
A Note on Żaṅ
Cet article analyse le sens du terme de parente źan employe en tant qu'appellation des parents maternels de la lignee des rois tibetains (c.600-c.850). L'analyse de textes tibetains de Dunhuang et des edits royaux, dans lesquels zan designe generalement l'oncle maternel ou le beau-pere, revele certaines principes regissant les alliances avec la lignee royale. Ainsi l'un clan aristocratique peut etre autorise a reclamer le titre de źan lorsque l'u…
Sørensen, Per K., Guntram Hazod, in cooperation with Tsering Gyalbo, Thundering Falcon: An Inquiry into the History and Cult of Khra-`brug. Tibet’s First Buddhist Temple
Thundering Falcon, the second collaborative effort from the same research team that produced the excellent work, Civilization at the Foot of Mount Sham-po, continues the work of Per Sørensen, Guntram Hazod and Tsering Gyalbo in the heartland of Tibetan culture in and around Yar-lung and ’Phyong-po. Taking Khra-’brug Temple as their jumping-off point, Sørensen et al. bring their immense historical and geographical knowledge to bear on various issu…
Divination and law in the Tibetan Empire
This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part offers a brief introduction to Old Tibetan law in order to locate the Old Tibetan legal document from Dunhuang, IOL Tib J 740 within the Tibetan legal tradition. Part two treats the physical features of the document, its orthography and structure. It also underlines the relationship between the divination manual and the legal text, and considers briefly the role of divination in Tibetan law…
Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet
The study of the rise and institutions of the Tibetan empire of the seventh to ninth centuries, and of the continuing development of Tibetan civilization during the obscure period that followed, have aroused growing interest among scholars of Inner Asia in recent decades. The six contributions presented here represent refinements in substance and method characterizing current work in this area. A chapter by Brandon Dotson provides a new perspecti…
The Old Tibetan Annals
The Old Tibetan Annals contain Tibet ́s oldest extant history. Primarily a bureaucratic register of events, it is the single most reliable source for the history of the first half of the Tibetan Empire (c. 600â 850 CE). This record was maintained more or less contemporaneously with the events it describes, with entries added at the end of each year from 650 to 764. In each yearly entry, the Old Tibetan Annals record information such as the summer…
At the Behest of the Mountain
Old Tibetan Studies, edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is an inquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The volume is written with the intent to confront facts and textualization and contribute to the clarification of particular aspects of the administrative and legislative organization, the ecclesiastical institution, and the religious, monastic, intellectual and material culture of Old Tibet and its …
Naming the King
Cet article examine trois actes d’appellation et leur rôle dans la transformation (de prince à roi, de roi à ancêtre et d’ancêtre à lieu de mémoire) des rois du Tibet ainsi que la place tenue par ces souverains par rapport à leurs sujets. Le premier acte de désignation consacre le passage du statut de prince à celui de roi. Il est l’un des seuls rituels que l’on puisse identifier avec certitude comme étant un élément central de l’intronisation d’…
"Misspelling "Buddha
Drawing on the archival study of over 1,600 copies of the TibetanAparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtra(Tib.:Tshe dpag du myed pa'i mdo) produced in Dunhuang from the 820s to the 840s and now kept in the British Library, this article sheds light on the orthographic norms of Middle Old Tibetan writing. Based on editors' corrections, and on a corpus of nearly 200 transcribed explicits, the article compares the orthographic norms of this group of sutras w…
On "personal protective deities" ('go ba'i lha) and the Old Tibetan verb 'go
The 'go ba'i lha - usually translated with "personal protective deities" - are often approached as an integral part of Tibetan popular or folk religion. Typically five in number, these gods are said to be born with an individual, to reside in his or her body, and to protect various facets of his or her existence. As for the etymology of 'go ba'i lha, while "protective deities" is the dominant translation, it remains a highly communicative and con…
The Horse and the Grass-Grazing Man
Hunting for fortune. Wild animals, goddesses and the play of perspectives in early Tibetan dice divination
Le cerf, l'antilope, la gazelle et d'autres animaux sauvages sont au cœur de la divination par les dés dans le Tibet ancien. On les trouve dans les présages successifs d’environ deux douzaines de manuscrits de divination par les dés des ixe et xe siècles, retrouvés à Dunhuang, Turfan et autres sites occupés par les Tibétains le long de la route sud de la soie aux viiie et ixe siècles. En plus des cerfs, kiang et yaks, diverses espèces d’oiseaux e…
Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet
The result of the authors’ painstaking documentation of over 1,500 Tibetan copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life from Dunhuang, now kept in the British Library’s Stein Collection, this book provides a detailed study of the sutra copies, how they were produced for the Tibetan emperor in ninth-century Dunhuang, and how they were conserved in twentieth-century England. It explores the lives of Dunhuang’s multi-ethnic scribes, editors, and administra…
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