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Author : Per Kvaerne,Per Kværne,Rinzin Thargyal
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bon (Tibetan religion)
ISBN : 8787062259
Author : Hiroko Kawanami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137574008
This study examines the impact of Buddhism on the political process of Asian countries in recent times. The intersection between Buddhism and politics; religious authority and political power is explored through the engagement of Buddhist monks and lay activists in the process of nation-building, development, and implementation of democracy.
Author : D. P. Dhammikammuni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhism and politics
ISBN : 9742253099
Author : Richard Madsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520252276
This title explores the remarkable religious renaissance that has reformed, revitalized and renewed the practices of Buddhism and Daoism in Taiwan. Madsen connects these developments to Taiwan's transition to democracy and the burgeoning needs of its new middle classes.
Author : Trine Brox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786720467
How do you govern 130,000 people from exile? Tibet - and the struggles of diaspora Tibetans - are elements of an ongoing and highly debated issue. The Dalai Lama's democratisation process during his time in India from 1959-2011, and the subsequent election of Lobsang Sangay as prime minister-in-exile, marked to the Tibetan people the move away from a seemingly feudal societal structure and traditional theocratic governance. Central to these Tibetan democracy aspirations is the 'freedom struggle' in which Tibetans dream of an ideal politics which includes both Tibetans residing in Tibet and those in exile, with the ultimate goal of returning to a self-ruled Tibet. However, some have questioned whether the fight for democracy has helped or hindered a united and free Tibet. To elucidate this complex debate Trine Brox has undertaken extensive fieldwork investigating how democracy is viewed and practised amongst Tibetans in exile. In so doing, she explores how the Tibetans living in India imagine, organise and negotiate governance that is modern and democratic, but uniquely Tibetan. This is an important book for those with an interest in Tibet, diaspora communities and democracy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:249665101
Author : Dan Martin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004488298
The subject for this study, the Tibetan “treasure revealer” Gshen-chen Klu-dga’, is a crucial figure in the development of Bon as an organised religion after the eleventh century. Here for the first time he is situated in the context of what was happening in Buddhism at the time. By scrutinizing his life and gter-ma (“treasures”), that were to be of much controversy in later ages, Dan Martin sheds light on the mechanism of Tibetan polemical tradition and the ways in which sectarianism accords itself legitimacy by resurrecting ancient arguments in a subtly distorted manner. The exhaustive annotated bibliography of previous works about Bon, forming the second part of the work, can rightly be seen as a legacy of Gshen-chen. Both parts taken together make this an indispensable guide to any student of Bon.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ana Cristina O. Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317572817
The imperialist ambitions of China – which invaded Tibet in the late 1940s – have sparked the spectacular spread of Tibetan Buddhism worldwide, and especially in western countries. This work is a study on the malleability of a particular Buddhist tradition; on its adaptability in new contexts. The book analyses the nature of the Tibetan Buddhism in the Diaspora. It examines how the re-signification of Tibetan Buddhist practices and organizational structures in the present refers back to the dismantlement of the Tibetan state headed by the Dalai Lama and the fragmentation of Tibetan Buddhist religious organizations in general. It includes extensive multi-sited fieldwork conducted in the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Asia and a detailed analysis of contemporary documents relating to the global spread of Tibetan Buddhism. The author demonstrates that there is a "de-institutionalized" and "de-territorialized" project of political power and religious organization, which, among several other consequences, engenders the gradual "autonomization" of lamas and lineages inside the religious field of Tibetan Buddhism. Thus, a spectre of these previous institutions continues to exist outside their original contexts, and they are continually activated in ever-new settings. Using a combination of two different academic traditions – namely, the Brazilian anthropological tradition and the American Buddhist studies tradition – it investigates the "process of cultural re-signification" of Tibetan Buddhism in the context of its Diaspora. Thus, it will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian Religion, Asian Studies and Buddhism.
Author : Kelzang T. Tashi,Tashi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197669860
In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested in the presence of an invalidating force: Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, Tashi investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to practice and engage with Bon, a religious practice that has survived over a millennium of impatience from a dominant Buddhist ecclesiastical structure. Against the backdrop of long-standing debates around practices unsystematically identified as 'bon', this book reframes the often stale and scholastic debates by providing a clear and succinct statement on how these practices should be conceived in the region. Tashi argues that the reasons for the tenacity of Bon practices and beliefs amid censures by the Buddhist priests are manifold and complex. While a significant reason for the persistence of Bon is the recency of formal Buddhist institutions in Goleng, he demonstrates that Bon beliefs are so deeply embedded in village social life that some Buddhists paradoxically feel it necessary to reach some kind of accommodation with Bon priests. Through an analysis of the relationship between Shamanic Bon and Buddhism, and the contemporary dynamics of Bhutanese society, this book tackles the longstanding concern of anthropology: cultural persistence and change. It discusses the mutual accommodation and attempted amalgamation of Buddhism and Bon, and offers fresh perspectives on the central distinguishing features of Great and Little Traditions.
Author : Alexander Kingsbury Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440784
In Divination in Exile, Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the performance of divination in Tibetan speaking communities, both past and present.
Author : Stephanie Römer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134057221
This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in northern India. Since its founding in 1959, it has been led by the 14th Dalai Lama who struggles to regain the Tibetan homeland. Based on a theoretical approach on exile organizations – and extensive empirical studies in Asia – this book discusses CTA’s political strategies to gain national loyalty, and international support, in order to secure its own organizational survival and the ultimate goal: the return to Tibet. The book is organized around the two fundamental questions: firstly, how the CTA fosters its claims to be the sole representative of all Tibetans over the last decades in exile; and, secondly, which policies have been carried out in order to regain the homeland. The book is divided into four substantial chapters: the historical background, providing a review of pre-1959 political Tibet a theoretical section which covers the critical position of exile organizations an examination of the exile Tibetan community and government from the early years an analysis of crucial CTA policies. Innovative and unique, this book combines a political science approach with Tibetan studies to analyse exile-Tibetan politics in particular, and exile governments in general.
Author : Mirja Juntunen,Birgit N. Schlyter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136175268
First Published in 1999. The majority of the contributions to this volume have their origin in a symposium which was held in Stockholm on 27–29 September 1996 under the Swedish title of Nordisk Centralasienforskning: språk – kultur – samhälle, i.e. 'Nordic Central Asia Research: Language – Culture – Society'. The main purpose of this meeting was to obtain a general view of current research activities and study programmes in this field and to help establish contact between Central Asia researchers in the Nordic countries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0415152143
This bibliography lists the most important works published in anthropology in 1995. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world's leading social science institutions. Published annually, IBSS is available in four subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
Author : Søren Ivarsson,Thommy Svensson,Stein Tønnesson
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 8787062429
