SARASVATI - A CHARMING GODDESS GUIDING TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT

• Authors: Szpindler Magdalena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There is, among several others, one xylograph preserved in the library of the Oriental Department of Warsaw University containing a poem on Sarasvati by Tsong kha pa written both in Tibetan and Mongolian. When translating it, the authoress of the present paper, pondered upon the idea of a woman (as a goddess and vice versa) and the beauty (of a woman) in Tibetan (and Mongolian) Buddhist literature. And that is how these few thoughts were put into the following words.

Keywords

EN

SARASVATI BY TSONG KHA PA

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 253-265
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szpindler Magdalena

• Magdalena Szpindler, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Orientalistyczny, Zaklad Turkologii i Ludów Azji Srodkowej, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA087819