Abse : histoire d’une divinité protectrice tibétaine

Abstract

As a complement to Nina Kollmar-Paulenz’s challenge of the prevailing rhetoric of the superiority of European historiography, this essay brings the focus of a Tibetan perspective of religious historiography. Presented in the dual context of Buddhist and Bon religious traditions, this essay provides the translation and analysis of a genealogical study of a male protective deity, Abse, firmly grounded in Tibetan literary sources.