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eastern Indian script - Pala region of eastern India - brought to Tibet between 900 + the 1300's
ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) woodblock prints/transient or [illegible] floating nature of human life
The life stories of Mahavira + several other most reversed Jain teachers are among the subjects contained in teh Kalpastra (book of rit used).
Singh - meaning lion - adopted by many Sikhs beginning in 1699
accordian format is typical for tradional scripts from Thailand, Burma, Laos + Cambodia
The epic Ramayana composed in India more than 2000 yrs ago was known in Southeast Asia from early tmes.
Rammakian - Thai version of Ramayana
palm leaf books - found in Nepal, South + Southeast Asia
In Tibet books are traditionally not boundinstead they consist of loose pages stacked in a pile, wrapped in a piece of cloth + placed between 2 wooden covers.
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4 official languagaes of the Manchu dynasty of China - Manchu, Chinese, Tibetan, + Mongolian.
Nyingma Order - Ancient tradition. Kagun Order - Oral 4 Sakya Order - Grey Earth tradition. Gelug Order - Virtuous tradition. The Dalai Laina.
Newars - originally from the Kathmandu Valley - had distinct language
Tara - female deity
Maitreya - the Buddha who will appear in the future
Tibetan ink was made from hide glue + [?root?]
lemey --> cursive uchen gold on indigo paper
pen-made from a shaft of bamboo whose tip is cut on a slant.
remedies in traditional Tibetan medicine - external, conduct, diet + internal medication
Thangka - sacred pictures that can be rolled up Buddhist devotional paintings.
Shakyamuni - the historical Buddha.
Mandala - diagrams of the cosmos - used as aids to meditation - from Sanscritt "circle" - a pictoral diagram regarded in Tibetan Buddhism as a representation of the palace of a Buddha.
