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Norbu, Namkhai : DRUNG, DEU AND BON: Narrations, Symbolic Languages and the Bon Traditions in Ancient Tibet
Norbu, Namkhai : DRUNG, DEU AND BON: Narrations, Symbolic Languages and the Bon Traditions in Ancient Tibet
Explores pre-Buddhist Tibetan culture as presented within the three categories described as the foundation of the kingdom of Tibet. Prof. Norbu investigates the epic poems and legends of Tibet's secular culture (drung), explains the mysteries of the ancient symbolic languages that conveyed wisdom inexpressible in conventional terms (deu), and elucidates the complexities of the pre-Buddhist Bon tradition.