Sources of Mongolian Buddhism

Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Contributors

Introduction Vesna Wallace

Part I: Two Early Seventeenth-Century Texts

The Stone Inscription of Covtu Taiji Brian Bauman

Siregetü Güüsi Corji's Treatise Containing the Complete Meanings of the Most Important [Doctrinal Concepts] to be Used Agata Bareja-Starzynska

Part II: Autobiography and Biography

The Autobiography of the First Khalkha Zaya Pandita Lobsang Trinley Sangseraima Ujeed

Zava Damdin's Beautifying Ornament for the Mind of the Faithful: A Praise-Biography of my Root Lama Vajradhara, He Who Possesses the Three Types of Kindness, the Great Madapandita Endowed with Excellent Discipline and Learning Named "Sanjaa" Matthew W. King

Part III: Buddhist Teachings

A Trilogy of Ngawang Palden and Sherüb Tendar Erdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir

Miscellaneous Writings of Caqar Gebsi Luvsancültem Matthew W. King

Teachings of the Pious Fat Pandita Tsevelvaanchigdorji Vesna A. Wallace

Mergen Gegeen's Didactic Poetry Uranchimeg Ujeed

Part IV: Buddhist Didactic Poetry

Buddhist Literature of Danzan Ravjaa Simon Wickham-Smith

Part V: Buddhist Ritual Texts

Khalkha Zaya Pandita's Smoke Offering Rituals to the Khangai Mountain Range Krisztina Teleki

Ritual Texts of Mergeen Gegeen Uranchimeg Ujeed

Ritual Texts of Prosperity and Purification Vesna A. Wallace

Ritual Texts Dedicated to the White Old Man with Examples from the Classical Mongolian and Oirat (Clear Script) Textual Corpora Birtalan Ágnes

Incense Offering to the Lord Chinggis Khan Matthew W. King

Caqar Gebsi Luvsancultem's Offering Ritual to the Fire Goddess Batsaikhan Norov and Batchimeg Ushkhbayar

Three Ritual Prayers by Ondor Gegeen Zanabazar Zsuzsa Mayer

Part VI: Buddhist Oral Literature of the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

The Legend of Mother Tara the Green Brian Baumann

Oral Historical Narratives from the Early Twentieth Century Adrienne Gecse

Part VII: Tradition in Transition: The Twentieth-Century Writings

Zava Damdin's "A 1931 Survey of Mongolian Monastic Colleges" Matthew W. King

Agwan Dorjiev's Questions about the Past and Future of Mongolian Buddhism Matthew W. King

The Internal Regulations of Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar Uranchimeg Tsultemin

Agvaanyam's "The Origin of Human Beings and the Holy Dharma Kings and Ministers in Mongol Lands," from The History of the Dharma, The Lamp of Scriptures and Reasoning Matthew W. King

Literary Treatments of Buddhism in the Period of Transition Simon Wickham-Smith

Part VIII: Contemporary Buddhist Writings

Contemporary Buddhist Poetry and Fiction Simon Wickham-Smith

Index