The Cult Of Pure Crystal Mountain

Author : Toni Huber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9780195120073

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The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber's work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work's documentary content, Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space, place, and person, and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them.

Author : Toni Huber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195353136

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The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain by Toni Huber Pdf

The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber's work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work's documentary content, Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space, place, and person, and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them.

Author : Ruth Gamble
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190690793

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Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism by Ruth Gamble Pdf

Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorjé (1284-1339) transformed reincarnation from a belief into a lasting Tibetan institution. Born the son of an itinerant, low-caste potter, Rangjung Dorjé went on to become a foundational figure in Tibetan Buddhism and a teacher of the last Mongolian emperor. He became renowned for his contributions to Buddhist philosophy, literature, astrology, medicine, architecture, sacred geography and manuscript production. But, as Ruth Gamble demonstrates, his most important legacy was the transformation of the Karmapa reincarnation lineage to ensure that, after his death, subsequent Karmapas were able to assume power in the religious institutions he had led. The inheritance model of reincarnation instituted by Rangjung Dorjé changed the Tibetan Plateau's power relations, which until that time had been based on family associations, and created a precedent for later reincarnate institutions, including that of the Dalai Lamas. Drawing on Rangjung Dorjé's hitherto un-translated autobiographies and autobiographical songs, this book shows that his reinvention of reincarnation was a self-conscious and multi-faceted project, made possible by Rangjung Dorjé's cultural, social, and political standing and specific historical and geographical circumstances. Exploring this combination of agency and historical coincidence, this is the first full-length study of the development of the reincarnation institution.

Author : Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199742405

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Tibetan Ritual by Jose Ignacio Cabezon Pdf

Ritual is one of the most pervasive religious phenomena in the Tibetan cultural world. Despite its ubiquity and importance to Tibetan cultural life, however, only in recent years has Tibetan ritual been given the attention it deserves. This is the first scholarly collection to focus on this important subject. Unique in its historical, geographical and disciplinary breadth, this book brings together eleven essays by an international cast of scholars working on ritual texts, institutions and practices in the greater Tibetan cultural world - Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia. While most of the chapters focus on Buddhism, two deal with ritual in Tibet's indigenous Bon religion. All of the essays are original to this volume. An extensive introduction by the editor provides a broad overview of Tibetan ritual and contextualizes the chapters within the field of Buddhist and Tibetan studies. The book should find use in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on Tibetan religion. It will also be of interest to students and scholars of ritual generally.

Author : Matthew W. King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231549226

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Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood by Matthew W. King Pdf

After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book, Matthew W. King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject. Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood takes up the perspective of the polymath Zava Damdin (1867–1937): a historian, mystic, logician, and pilgrim whose life and works straddled the Qing and its socialist aftermath, between the monastery and the party scientific academy. Drawing on contacts with figures as diverse as the Dalai Lama, mystic monks in China, European scholars inventing the field of Buddhist studies, and a member of the Bakhtin Circle, Zava Damdin labored for thirty years to protect Buddhist tradition against what he called the “bloody tides” of science, social mobility, and socialist party antagonism. Through a rich reading of his works, King reveals that modernity in Asia was not always shaped by epochal contact with Europe and that new models of Buddhist life, neither imperial nor national, unfolded in the post-Qing ruins. The first book to explore countermodern Buddhist monastic thought and practice along the Inner Asian frontiers during these tumultuous years, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood illuminates previously unknown religious and intellectual legacies of the Qing and offers an unparalleled view of Buddhist life in the revolutionary period.

Author : Suzanne M. Bessenger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190225285

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Echoes of Enlightenment by Suzanne M. Bessenger Pdf

Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren. Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult life as a nomad in eastern Tibet until her death in 1372. She is believed to have been illiterate, lacking religious education, and unconnected to established religious institutions. For that reason, and because as a woman her claims of religious authority would have been constantly questioned, Sönam Peldren's success in legitimizing her claims of divine identity appear all the more remarkable. Today the site of her death is recognized as sacred by local residents. Suzanne Bessenger draws on the new-found biography of the saint to understand how the written record of the saint's life is shaped both by the hagiographical agendas of its multiple authors and by the dictates of the genres of Tibetan religious literature, including biography and poetry. She considers Sönam Peldren's enduring historical legacy as a fascinating piece of Tibetan history that reveals much about the social and textual machinations of saint production. Finally, she identifies Sönam Peldren as one of the earliest recorded instances of a historical Tibetan woman successfully using the uniquely Tibetan hermeneutic of deity emanation to achieve religious authority.

Author : Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739165218

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The Social Life of Tibetan Biography by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa Pdf

The Social Life of Tibetan Biography outlines the growth of the Buddhist tradition of the Tibetan teacher Tokden Shakya Shri (1853–1919) through charting his biographical tradition and its influence on the development of his community. Tokden Shakya Shri’s tradition is an important exemplar of interpersonal exchange on the margins between East and South Asia, connections between text and social community, and the diversity of Tibetan Buddhist practice and institutional forms at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Johannes Nicolaisen,Jens Yde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : IND:30000103038729

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Folk by Johannes Nicolaisen,Jens Yde Pdf

Author : Toni Huber
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030120847

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Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places in Tibetan Culture by Toni Huber Pdf

Author : Guntram Hazod,Tsering Gyalbo,Per K. Sørensen
Publisher : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110110181

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Civilization at the Foot of Mount Sham-po by Guntram Hazod,Tsering Gyalbo,Per K. Sørensen Pdf

Author : Johan Reinhard,María Constanza Ceruti
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Andes
ISBN : UCSD:31822038164984

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Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains by Johan Reinhard,María Constanza Ceruti Pdf

The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 6,096 m (20,000 feet) high. The most important offerings made during these pilgrimages involved human sacrifices (capacochas). Although Spanish chroniclers wrote about these offerings and the state sponsored processions of which they were a part, their accounts were based on second-hand sources, and the only direct evidence we have of the capacocha sacrifices comes to us from archaeological excavations. Some of the most thoroughly documented of these were undertaken on high mountain summits, where the material evidence has been exceptionally well preserved. In this study we describe the results of research undertaken on Mount Llullaillaco (6,739 m/22,109 feet), which has the world's highest archaeological site. The types of ruins and artifact assemblages recovered are described and analyzed. By comparing the archaeological evidence with the chroniclers' accounts and with findings from other mountaintop sites, common patterns are demonstrated; while at the same time previously little known elements contribute to our understanding of key aspects of Inca religion. This study illustrates the importance of archaeological sites being placed within the broader context of physical and sacred features of the natural landscape.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : IND:30000080941093

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Anthropology News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000109147904

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Buddhism in World Cultures by Stephen C. Berkwitz Pdf

A comprehensive overview of modern Buddhism across cultures, showing how this ancient religion has adapted to recent social and political change. Collecting the work of leading authorities on Buddhism in different societies around the world, this book details the state of the religion in Asian countries where it is a major cultural influence and in North America. The religion has changed to meet the challenges of modernity; its practitioners have incorporated those innovations and this work examines those changes in-depth. A comprehensive overview of historical Buddhist practice grounds the reader for the entire nine chapters, each of which is organized by geographical area and follows the path Buddhism took as it spread across Asia and into North America. Each chapter presents field research and critical reflection on what constitutes modern Buddhism in one of nine countries or regions. Histories of Buddhism are common; this is the only source for in-depth information on modern Buddhism.

Author : Blo-bzang-chos-kyi-nyi-ma (Thuʼu-bkwan III)
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Classics
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015080863478

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The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems by Blo-bzang-chos-kyi-nyi-ma (Thuʼu-bkwan III) Pdf

The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems by Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima (1737-1802) is probably the widest-ranging account of religious philosophies ever written in pre-modern Tibet. Thuken was a cosmopolitan Buddhist monk from Amdo, Mongol by heritage, Tibetan in education, and equally comfortable in a central Tibetan monastery or at the imperial court in Beijing. Like most texts on philosophical systems, his Crystal Mirror covers the major schools of India, both non-Buddhist and Buddhist, but then goes on to discuss in detail the entire range of Tibetan traditions as well, with separate chapters on the Nyingma, Kadam, Kagyü, Shijé, Sakya, Jonang, Geluk, and Bön. Not resting there, Thuken goes on to describe the major traditions of China-Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist-as well as those of Mongolia, Khotan, and Shambhala. The Crystal Mirror is unusual, too, in its concern not just to describe and analyze doctrines, but to trace the historical development of the various traditions. All this makes the Crystal Mirror an eloquent, erudite, and informative textbook on the religious history and philosophical systems of an array of Asian cultures-and provides evidence that serious and sympathetic study of the history of religions has not been a monopoly of Western scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN : UOM:39015066263867

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The Himalayan Journal by Anonim Pdf