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Kagjüpa - school of Tibetam Buddhism
Peleška, Čeněk ; Berounský, Daniel (advisor) ; Vokurková, Zuzana (referee)
This work focuses on one of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism named Kagyüpa. And mainly, on a lineage that comes from Marpa Translator and are therefore sometimes called Marpa Kagyü or Dagpo Kagyü. The second of its main lines - Shangpa Kagyü - there will be mentioned only in brief and will not be given so much space to it. The aim of this work is to describe the history of the school, the source from which it came. And describe its various branches and subsects which are divided over time. Notice will be given to most important figures, which gave birth to the different branches and offshoots, founders of major monasteries and interesting persons of this school.
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Ritual use of skull in Tibet.
Hanker, Martin ; Berounský, Daniel (advisor) ; Vokurková, Zuzana (referee)
This study's primary ambition is to present an overview of the key texts from a genre of Tibetan craniological manuals (Tib. thod brtags) as well as some of their translations, thus illustrating the diversity of this tradition. Based on the reviewed material, a comparison with secondary literature will be made and a few re-evaluations of known facts suggested. Because the only available comprehensive translation of any craniological text was published in 1888 (!) and all the subsequent works have relied on it without necessary critical approach, I decided to translate that original text once again and reveal any possible misinterpretations. As a result, I hope this thesis will contribute to the already present academic (mainly ethnographical oriented) discussion about the use of skulls in Tibet, as its philological support, hence filling up this blank methodological spot. Keywords Tibetan studies, Tibetology, Philology, Tibet, Buddhism, vajrayāna, tantra, ritual object, ritual vessel, human skull, calvaria, cranium, skull cup, craniology, manual, Kapālika gal gnad ming tshig bod, chos, bon, kapāla, ka li, thod pa, thod phor, thod bum, thod zhal, thod rus, bha+ndha, bhandha, ban+dha, bhan ja, dung chen, thod brtag, thod brtags, thod rabs, thod bshad, thod pa'i mtshan, snod, sgrub rdzas, thod sgrub,...
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The influence of the family social and financial background on the origin of children's obesity
Vokurková, Zuzana ; Pejšová, Hana (advisor) ; Chrpová, Diana (referee)
: Obesity is a very serious health and social-economic worldwide problem today. Childhood obesity means a higher risk of obesity and other associated health problems in later adulthood. As some research shows, every fourth child in the Czech Republic is overweight and every seventh child is obese. The cause of obesity is not only poor eating habits and lack of physical activity, but also genetic, psychological and socio-economic factors. For this reason, prevention itself is an important and only successful step. The main goal of this bachelor thesis was to find the connection between the socio - financial background of the family and the childhood obesity. Find out if the level of education and the level of family income affect childhood obesity. The work also focuses on mapping the eating habits of obese children in connection with social and financial backgrounds. The materials for the theoretical part of the thesis were obtained from professional literature, medical journals, articles and internet sources WHO, SZÚ, ÚZIS. Child obesity and socio-economic influences have been defined in this section. The research part of the work was carried out in the form of a quantitative questionnaire survey, which was anonymous and entirely voluntary. The questionnaire was submitted and approved by the...
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Genealogy of Ya-ngal Family of Dolpo (Critical Edition of the Text, Translation into Englich, Analyses of Abbreviations and Introduction to he Dolpo Dialect)
Hojer Lama, Nima ; Berounský, Daniel (advisor) ; Vokurková, Zuzana (referee) ; Ramble, Charles (referee)
1 Abstract The thesis deals primarily with the Tibetan text of The Genealogy of Ya-ngal Family of Dolpo, which is an important document concerning the history of Western Tibet. The text itself has never been fully translated and there are also different manuscript versions of it, which contain partially different reading. The various manuscript versions have been compared and the critical edition of the text has been established. This formed the basis for translation of the entire text into English. This core of the dissertation is preceded by necessary background information on the region of Dolpo, its history and a significance of the role the Ya-ngal family played in it. Second chapter contains the translation of the Genealogy with detailed comments in the footnotes. The entire text has been divided into chapters, whose titles are given in the square brackets indicating thus that they are missing in the original text. The third chapter focuses mainly on the specific abbreviations of written words used across the entire text of the Genealogy, since there is hardly any literature in western languages dealing with this topic. This part is introduced by brief linguistic description of the Dolpo dialect of Tibetan. It is followed by general introduction of the abbreviating styles in Tibetan scriptures. The...
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Thisong Decän
Pinker, Filip ; Berounský, Daniel (advisor) ; Vokurková, Zuzana (referee)
This work surveys whole life of Tibetan emperor Thisong Decän. It tries to be as comprehensive as possible. It includes territorial expansion of empire and introduction of Buddhism as state religion, but also other minor topics such as succession to the Tibetan throne or his death. There are many works about Tibetan history, but even top researchers sometimes contradict each other in their statements. This is the reason why I have tried to compare knowledge already known to scientific world. I have to admit that this work does not produce any innovative information to the world of researchers. It is only a summary which could be useful for Orientalists-beginners or people interested in Tibetan history.
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Fabulous Land of Shambhala
Hanker, Martin ; Berounský, Daniel (advisor) ; Vokurková, Zuzana (referee)
The myth of Shambhala shelters trandemously wide rande of symbols, which moved it towards new contexts of imagination and events, that augment its traditional purpose and sense. Indigenous contours of eschatological and utopistic archetypes are covered by new layers of interpretations, so the aim is to reveal the mythical roots via stepwise purification. After getting familiar with available materials, a prezentation of a development of the mythical images takes its place, based on publications referring to the primary sources. Main ideas are here introduced within corresponding areas slightly deeper. Following part interpretates some key elements of the myth and their wider context according to the secondary sources. Third chapter presents the role of Occident in connection with Shambhala as a oriental element, which we are still trying to understand in the propriate way. Some other western phenomenas are briefly described in the end too, because they are closely related to the issue of Shambhala in the West, but deeper focus on them is not the goal of this thesis. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Connectives in Tibetan
Yang, Pavel ; Vokurková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Berounský, Daniel (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with connectives in Tibetan. The basis is the translation work. As for the procedure, firstly the translations were made, then the work with connectives was undergone and that resulted in the theoretical part and in the final conclusion. Key words: Tibetan grammar, connectives, conjunctions
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Iconography of Green Tara
Heroldová, Helena ; Berounský, Daniel (advisor) ; Vokurková, Zuzana (referee)
Goddess Tārā (Sgrol ma in Tibetan) belongs among the most popular protective deities of Tibetan Buddhism. She appeared in India in about the 8th century, and later her worship spread to Tibet and Mongolia, and eventually to China and Japan. At present, she becomes a well-known deity even in modern Western Buddhism. This work summarizes the basic information concerning the development of the iconography of the goddess Tārā. The first part provides an overview of primary sources, in particular texts written by Tibetan authors from the 12th to the 17th centuries. This part also includes an annotated translation of one of the fundamental texts of Tārā worship, The Praise of Twenty-one Tārās. The second part is devoted to the goddess Tārā in traditional religious painting. Especially, the iconographical rules for Tārā paintings are described. This part contains the Catalogue of thirty paintings of Tārā dated to the 20th century from the area of modern-day Mongolia that are kept in the collection of the National Museum-Náprstek Museum in Prague. The paintings show the transformation of the traditional iconography. A Conclusion reflects on the role of the goddess Tārā in modern Western Buddhism, as well as development and changes in her iconography.
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In Between of Wedding and War: mGar Clan in the Tibetan Politics of the 7th Century
Jandáček, Petr ; Berounský, Daniel (advisor) ; Vokurková, Zuzana (referee)
The work is focused on well known Tibetan clan Mgar from the royal period of Tibetan history (ca 600-850). After the introduction describing Tibetan society in the royal period is analysed role of the Mgar clan in 2nd half of 7th century specially the role of negotiators of dynastic marriage of Tibetan ruler Songtsen Gampo and Chinese princess Wencheng and the role of military leaders and administrators of conquered territories. Except of that is the work focused on folklore and motifs of folk-literature connected to Mgar clan.
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Epistemic modalities in Spoken Standard Tibetan
Vokurková, Zuzana ; Palek, Bohumil (advisor) ; Van Der Auwera, Johan (referee) ; Guentcheva, Zlatka (referee)
In my dissertation, I have studied one of the yet non-described parts of the grammar of spoken Standard Tibetan: the epistemic modalities. To convey epistemic meanings, spoken Standard Tibetan makes use of lexical and grammatical means (3.1., 3.2.). The latter one, the grammatical expression of epistemic meanings has, in the spoken language, developed into a complex system of epistemic verbal endings. As a result, I concentrated on identifying and classifying these epistemic endings. Since the present dissertation is concerned with the spoken language, fieldwork was an important part of my research work. Realized between the years 2002 and 2006 mostly in central Tibet but also in the diaspora, this fieldwork confirmed the division of Tibetan verbal endings in two sub-systems: evidential and epistemic. Although they share some functions, mainly the expression of the tense-aspect, they differ in the degree of certainty that the speaker attributes to his utterance. Furthermore, it has been revealed that there are at least a dozen of various types of epistemic endings commonly used in spoken Standard Tibetan that differ in the degree of certainty, geographic use and frequency (3.2.1.1., Chapter IV.). Altogether, I have described 44 epistemic endings and built their tense-aspect paradigm (3.2.2.4.1.). The...
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