Alexander von Rospatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander von Rospatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | von Rospatt |
| SIGNATURE | VON ROSPATT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Negotiating the Passage beyond a Full Span of Life: Old Age Rituals among the Newars
Among the rich heritage of medieval forms of Tantric Buddhism and Hinduism surviving among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley is a unique series of elaborate old age rituals that are performed upon the attainment of a particular age. Drawing upon the vocabulary of planetary appeasement and other birthday rituals of life-cycle sacraments and of dhāraṇī practice, they serve to protect and sanctify the celebrants and prolong their life. After offeri…
Past Continuity and Recent Changes in the Ritual Practice of Newar Buddhism: Reflections on the Impact of Tibetan Buddhism and the Advent of Modernity
mitting myself to a more specific term such as those used to identify the seven "levels of intervention" that James Marston Fitch (Historic Preservation, 1982) distinguishes "according to a scale of increasing radicality," namely "1. preservation; 2. restoration; 3. conservation and consolidation; 4. reconstitution; 5. adaptive reuse; 6. reconstruction; 7. replication." As I explain below, the 'renovations' of the Svayambhcaitya were major affair…
Richard F. Gombrich: How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
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Richard F. Gombrich: How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Past Continuity and Recent Changes in the Ritual Practice of Newar Buddhism: Reflections on the Impact of Tibetan Buddhism and the Advent of Modernity
mitting myself to a more specific term such as those used to identify the seven "levels of intervention" that James Marston Fitch (Historic Preservation, 1982) distinguishes "according to a scale of increasing radicality," namely "1. preservation; 2. restoration; 3. conservation and consolidation; 4. reconstitution; 5. adaptive reuse; 6. reconstruction; 7. replication." As I explain below, the 'renovations' of the Svayambhcaitya were major affair…
Negotiating the Passage beyond a Full Span of Life: Old Age Rituals among the Newars
Among the rich heritage of medieval forms of Tantric Buddhism and Hinduism surviving among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley is a unique series of elaborate old age rituals that are performed upon the attainment of a particular age. Drawing upon the vocabulary of planetary appeasement and other birthday rituals of life-cycle sacraments and of dhāraṇī practice, they serve to protect and sanctify the celebrants and prolong their life. After offeri…
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