Per Kværne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Per Kværne is a Norwegian tibetologist and historian of religion. Biography Per Kværne was born in Oslo, Norway. In 1970 he received the mag.art. degree in Sanskrit at the University of Oslo. From 1970 to 1975 he worked as a lecturer in the history of religion at the University of Bergen. In 1973 he received the dr.philos. degree from the University of Oslo with his thesis An Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs. From 1975 to 2007 he was professor of the history of religion at the University of Oslo, and he is now a professor emeritus.
Per Kværne's Published Works
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- The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition (1995) (24)
- Tibet Bon Religion: A Death Ritual of the Tibetan Bonpos (1985) (14)
- "Comparative Religion: Whither and Why?", a reply to Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1973) (13)
- An anthology of Buddhist tantric songs : a study of the Caryāgīti (2010) (13)
- On the concept of sahaja in Indian Buddhist Tantric literature (1975) (13)
- Dualism in Tibetan Cosmogonic Myths and the Question of Iranian Influence (1987) (8)
- The study of Bon in the West : Past, present, and future (2000) (8)
- The canon of the Tibetan Bonpos (1974) (8)
- Tibetan studies : proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes 1992 (1994) (7)
- A catalogue of the Bon Kanjur (2003) (6)
- The Bon Religion of Tibet : A Survey of Research (2012) (5)
- A Norwegian traveller in Tibet: Theo Sörensen and the Tibetan collection at the Oslo University Library (1973) (5)
- Bonpo Studies: The A Khrid System of Meditation, Part 2 The Essential Teaching of the a Khrid System (1973) (4)
- Bon, Buddhism and Democracy: The Building of a Tibetan National Identity (1993) (4)
- A Tibetan Death Ceremony (1978) (2)
- The Visit of Prince Waldemar of Prussia to Nepal in February and March 1845 (1979) (1)
- Western Reflections on ‘Oral’ and ‘Folk’ Literature in the Study of Ancient Tibetan Texts (2018) (1)
- 6. Buddhist Surrealists in Bengal (2021) (0)
- French Contributions to Himalayan and Tibetan Studies (1995) (0)
- Davidson, Ronald M., Tibetan renaissance. Tantric Buddhism in the rebirth of Tibetan culture: New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, XV + 596 pp., 7 maps, 21 figures, 9 tables. ISBN 0-231-13470-3. $ 75,- (paper: $ 32,50) (2007) (0)
- Buddhist Surrealists in Bengal (2021) (0)
- The stages of A-khrid meditation : Dzogchen practice of the Bon tradition (1996) (0)
- A Case of Prophecy in Post-imperial Tibet (2019) (0)
- Martin Dan, Unearthing Bon Treasures. Life and Contested Legacy of a Tibetan Scripture Revealer, with a General Bibliography of Bon (2004) (0)
- The Monastery Rules: Buddhist monastic organisation in pre-modern Tibet, by Berthe Jansen (2020) (0)
- The Bstan rcis of Ñii ma bstan ͐jin: Transcription of the Tibetan text (1970) (0)
- HERMAN LUDIN JANSEN (1905-1986) (1986) (0)
- The hemp cultivators of Uttarakhand and social complexity ( with a special reference to the Rathis of Garhwal ) 1 (2019) (0)
- Book review: The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet, written by Clare E. Harris (2014) (0)
- Bonpo Studies: The A Krhid System of Meditaion (1973) (0)
- HANS GUDES SKOTTLANDSREISE (2005) (0)
- Martin, Dan, Unearthing Bon Treasures. Life and Contested Legacy of a Tibetan Scripture Revealer, with a General Bibliography of Bon. [Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, Volume 1.] Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill 2001, pp. viii, 483. ISBN 90-04-12123-4. (2004) (0)
- Gyatso Janet, Being human in a Buddhist world. An intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet. New York, Columbia University Press, 2015, x + 519 pages, ISBN 978-0-231-16496-2 (2016) (0)
- Sakyamuni in the Bon Religion (1989) (0)
- SER no.060; Introduction (2006) (0)
- Seminar of Young Tibetologists (annoncement) (1976) (0)
- Bonpo thangkas from Khyungpo (2006) (0)
- Source of Life: Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas, written by Toni Huber (2022) (0)
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