A Morphophonemic Problem in the Spoken Tibetan of Lhasa

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ID3964408
AuthorsKun Chang (0000-0003-2485-5946), Betty Shefts
Year1965
Volume85
Issue1
Pages34
Publication date1965-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/597700
OpenAlexW1998024123
LanguageEN
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then. There was the sheen of day nor night. That One breathed (came to life), though uninspired by breath, by its own potentiality. Besides it nothing existed. neither death nor immortality; cf. RV 10.72.9; AV 10.7.15. by its own potentiality ; cf. RV 10. 72. 1. 3. There was darkness hidden by darkness at the beginning. This all was an unillumined flood. The force (with power of evolution) which was enclosed in emptiness (a shell), That One, was born through the power of its own (creative incubating) heat. cf. RV 10. 190. 1. tuchyena . . . apihitam. Possibly there is implied here the idea of a universe contained in an egg-shaped container or shell (cf. ChU 3. 19, Maitri U 6. 36, and the later expression brahminda). The developing power (dbhu) is to put in it the sat and the asat, and in the sat will put the rjas and the vy6man (st. 1). 4. In the beginning desire came over That [One], which became the first seed of mind. The sages by their pious insight in their heart (i. e., by introspection) found the relation of the Existent with the Non-existent

Ancient history · Art · Emptiness · Epistemology · Immortality · Introspection · Literature · Nothing · Physics · Power (physics) · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy

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