Tibet, Past and Present, Tibetan Studies I : PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000

Contents: Editor's preface. History: 1. Bon dang 'brel bar bod kyi lo rgyus kyi dus tshigs dang don dngos 'gar zhib mor dpyad pa/Bon Brgya Dge Legs Lhun Grub Rgya Mtsho. 2. The royal residence Pho brang byams pa mi 'gyur gling and the story of Srong btsan sgam po's birth in Rgya ma/Guntram Hazod. 3. A re-evaluation of the Tibetan conquest of Eighth-century Shazhou/Dunhuang/Bianca Horlemann. 4. Sources on the life and works of the eleventh-century Tibetan Scholar Rong zom chos kyi bzang po: a brief survey/Orna Almogi. 5. The history of the lineages of Gnas rnying, summarised as its 'Ten Greatnesses'/Roberto Vitali. 6. The Mongol states and their struggle for dominance over Tibet in the 13 century/Karl-Heinz Everding. 7. Activities of Indian Panditas in Tibet from the 14 to the 17 century/Lobsang Shastri. 8. The great Western-Himalayan earthquake of 1505: a rupture of the Central Himalayan Gap?/David Jackson. 9. The "Records of Teachings Received" in the collected works of A mes Zhabs: an untapped source for the study of Sa Skya pa Biographies/Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. 10. Der Jonang-Orden: Grunde fur seinen Niedergang, Voraussetzungen fur das Uberdauern und Aktuelle Lage/Andreas Gruschke. 11. The previous incarnations of the Qianlong Emperor according to the Panchen Lama: Blo Bzang dpal Idan ye Shes/Vladimir L. Uspensky. 12. The closing of the Gates: Tibetan-European relations at the end of the eighteenth century/Isrun Engelhardt. 13. A propos de notations geographiques dans l'A mdo chos 'byung/Anne Chayet. 14. The drowning of Lama Sengchen Kyabying: A preliminary Enquiry from British sources/Alex Mckay. 15. A report on William Woodville Rockhill 1854-1914/Braham Norwick. 16. Princes Esper and Dii Ukhtomsky and their contribution to the study of Buddhist culture/Elena A. Khamaganova. 17. Historiography and the narration of cultural identity in Zanskar/Eva K. Neumaier. 18. Bod mi'i mi tshe'i brgyud rim ltar gyi dmangs srol skor zhig la rtogs zhib byas pa: Gtso bo a mdo'i 'brog khul gyi gnas tshul bzhir bzung pa yin/Lha Mchog Rgyal. 19. Issues of Tibetan nationalism and national identity/Yeshi Choedon. 20. The Ladakh Budh Vihar of Delhi: the fate of a Ladakhi outpost in the Indian capital/Thierry Dodin. 21. Tibetan legal documents of South-Western Tibet: structure and style/Hanna Schneider. Linguistics: 1. Concise analysis of Zhang Zhung terms in the documents of Dunhuang/Namgyal Nyima Dagkar. 2. The development of Temporal coding in Tibetan: suggestions for a functional internal reconstruction (1)/Bettina Zeisler. 3. Reflexes of the Suffix *-S in classical Tibetan and Old Chinese/Olga M. Mazo. 4. Bod Kyi Idog tshig gi skor rags tsam gleng ba/Go Shul Grags Pa 'Byung Gnas.