Tibetan Buddhism In Diaspora

Author : Ana Cristina O. Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138492213

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Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora by Ana Cristina O. Lopes Pdf

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 : Ana Cristina O. Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317572800

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Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora by Ana Cristina O. Lopes Pdf

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 : Dagmar Bernstorff,Hubertus von Welck
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Refugees, Tibetan
ISBN : 8125025553

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Exile as Challenge by Dagmar Bernstorff,Hubertus von Welck Pdf

This Book Is An Attempt To Document The Lives Of Members Of The Exiled Tibetan Community In Indian And Elsewhere. It Thus Aims To Fill A Gap In Our Understanding. The Book Focuses On Two Main Themes: How Tibetans In Exile Preserve Their Culture, And How The Community Prepares Itself For The Return To Tibet. The Book Also Carries An Interview With His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Author : Tenzin Dolma
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789387023659

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The Tibetan Diaspora by Tenzin Dolma Pdf

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Author : Anju Gurawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210718818

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Tibetan Diaspora by Anju Gurawa Pdf

Author : Igor Pietkiewicz
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132227906

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Culture, Religion, and Ethnomedicine by Igor Pietkiewicz Pdf

Culture, Religion, and Ethnomedicine discusses various interdependencies between culture, religion, and health with a concentration on Tibetan culture. Igor Pietkiewicz uses an example of the Tibetans in exile to explain how culture affects illness behavior, including perception of sickness and treatment methods, as well as the choice of an appropriate cure. The book also touches upon the problem of migration and various risk factors associated with adjustment of ethnic minorities in a host country. It elaborates on the issues not limited to a single refugee community, but universal in a world that is becoming a global village. Students planning to do qualitative research in social sciences will find this book valuable. Students can learn how to select data and get information about data sources, analysis, and management from the chapter on qualitative research methodology. This book will also be helpful to health practitioners who treat individuals representing other cultures as well those interested in health issues in multi-cultural settings. A free companion website with extensive supplementary material including full-color photographs is available at www.cultureandmedicine.com.

Author : Shelly Bhoil,Enrique Galvan-Alvarez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498552394

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Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage by Shelly Bhoil,Enrique Galvan-Alvarez Pdf

Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focusing on developments taking place in Tibet and the diaspora, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues at the heart of Tibetan modernity. From the political dynamics of the exiled community in India to the production of contemporary Tibetan literature in the PRC, the collection delves into various aspects of current significance for the Tibetan community worldwide such as the construction of Bon identity in exile, the strategic use of the discourse of development or the issue of cultural and linguistic purity in an increasingly hybrid and globalized world. Moving away from the preservationist paradigm that regards Tibetan culture as an endangered and precious object, the essays in this book portray Tibetan identities in motion, as lived subjectivities that travel, change and creatively reimagine themselves on various global stages. Even if recent Tibetan history is marked by imposed transitions and a sense of dispossession, this collection highlights the ways Tibetans have not only managed traumatic historical events but also become agents of change and reinventors of their own traditions.

Author : Eve Mullen
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 3830960530

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The American Occupation of Tibetan Buddhism by Eve Mullen Pdf

Author : Seonaigh MacPherson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136789045

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Education and Sustainability by Seonaigh MacPherson Pdf

This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora, the book extends its analysis to consider the plight of other peoples who find themselves straddling the Indigenous-Minority-Diaspora divide. MacPherson explores the overlapping and distinctive sustainability challenges facing indigenous and minority communities when they are connected by and within diasporas, and seeks to adequately explain the discontinuities and disjunctures between their educational struggles and achievement levels.

Author : L. McMillin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312299095

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English in Tibet, Tibet in English by L. McMillin Pdf

This book explores two kinds of self-presentation in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora: that of British writers in their travel texts to Tibet from 1774 to 1910 and that of Tibetans in recent autobiographies in English. McMillin contends that Tibet and the Anglophone West have had a long, complex, and convoluted relationship that can be explored, in part, through analysis of English language texts. The first part of the book explores how a myth of epiphany in Tibet comes to dominate English texts of travel in Tibet, while the second part considers how Tibetan autobiographers writing in English have responded and resisted Western images of them.

Author : Julia Meredith Hess
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804776318

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Immigrant Ambassadors by Julia Meredith Hess Pdf

The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibetans and their families to immigrate to the United States; a decade later the total U.S. population includes some 10,000 Tibetans. Not only is the social fact of the migration—its historical and political contexts—of interest, but also how migration and resettlement in the U.S. reflect emergent identity formations among members of a stateless society. Immigrant Ambassadors examines Tibetan identity at a critical juncture in the diaspora's expansion, and argues that increased migration to the West is both facilitated and marked by changing understandings of what it means to be a twenty-first-century Tibetan—deterritorialized, activist, and cosmopolitan.

Author : Rajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351551595

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Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora by Rajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran Pdf

Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Author : Frank J. Korom
Publisher : St-Hyacinthe, Quebec : World Heritage Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047062008

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Constructing Tibetan Culture by Frank J. Korom Pdf

Author : Gregory Price Grieve,Daniel Veidlinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317950332

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Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media by Gregory Price Grieve,Daniel Veidlinger Pdf

Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly networked and digital era. Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the context of technologies such as virtual worlds, social media, and mobile devices, authors ask how the Internet affects identity, authority and community, and what effect this might have on the development, proliferation, and perception of Buddhism in an online environment. Together, these essays make the case that studying contemporary online Buddhist practice can provide valuable insights into the shifting role religion plays in our constantly changing, mediated, hurried, and uncertain culture.

Author : Per Kvaerne,Per Kværne,Rinzin Thargyal
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bon (Tibetan religion)
ISBN : 8787062259

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Bon, Buddhism and Democracy by Per Kvaerne,Per Kværne,Rinzin Thargyal Pdf