Early Tibetan History Of Bon Religion

Bon religion is the source of Tibetan culture,both historically and in the present situation,Bon holds an important position in Tibetan society.The early Bon religion history studied in this dissertation consists of three chapters.The first chapter is about the periodization of Bon history.In history,both Bon and Tibetan Buddhism scholars payed close attention to the history of Bon,in order to outline the history of Bon,they introduced different periodization methods of Bon history,that is periodization method of Early Propagationon,Middle Propagationon and Later Propagationon and the theory of three stages of Bon development.Both of them are of great value,and are of their own defects as well.By analysising their each defect,this dissertation presented the history periodization method of Bon,namely dividing Bon history into Early Propagationon and Later Propagationon,and through which the outline of early history of Bon will be discussed.Chapter II is about the study of Early Propagationon of Bon.The Early Propagationon of Bon is during Ancient Tibet,this dissertation discusses important moments and major events of Bon development at that time,which includes gnya' khri btsan po epoch,gnam la khri bdun epoch,gri gum's destroying Bon,the first spread of Buddhism and it's influence to Bon,khri srung lde btsan's destroying Bon and Bon development during later Tibetan dynasty and so on.Chapter III is about the study of Later Propagationon of Bon.Later Propagationon of Bon is from the collapse of Tibetan dynasty till the formation of g.yung drung bon which is highest level of Bon religion.The chapter mainly analysis the process of g.yung drung bon coming into begin under the influence of political background and Tibetan Buddhism,on the basis of original Bon religion by absorbing Buddhism after the collapse of Tibetan dynasty.During this process,the mainly develop ways are of creating the holy founder gshen rab mi bo,arranging teaching,excavating Gter ma,compiling Bonpo Tripitaka,building temple and institutionalization of temples and so on.Through a series of reform of Buddhismization,Bon finally formed g.yung drung bon in the 15th century.The appendix part is the Chinese translation of tibetan historical bonpo book Bstan pa'i rnam bshad dar rgyas gsal ba'i sgron me which was written in the late 15th century,and this book discussed systematicly the history of Bon before 15th century.According to the original book,the second part includes four chapters:the first chapter is about how to teach and learn Bon teaching,chapter II the beginning of Bon;chapter ?flourish,decline and development of Bon history,the fourth chapter Bon teaching existing cycle.The most important part is the historical part of chapter ? and chapter ?.