Tibetan Demonology

Author : Christopher Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108587099

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Tibetan Demonology discusses the rich taxonomy of gods and demons encountered in Tibet. These spirits are often the cause of, and exhorted for, diverse violent and wrathful activities. This Element consists of four thematic sections. The first section, 'Spirits and the Body', explores oracular possession and spirit-induced illnesses. The second section, 'Spirits and Time', discusses the role of gods in Tibetan astrology and ritual calendars. The third section, 'Spirits and Space', examines the relationship between divinities and the Tibetan landscape. The final section, 'Spirits and Doctrine', explores how certain deities act as fierce protectors of religious and political institutions.

Author : Raimondo Bultrini
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401943554

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The Dalai Lama and the King Demon by Raimondo Bultrini Pdf

A triple homicide committed a few hundred yards away from the residence in exile of the Dalai Lama opens the doors to an unknown universe for Superintendent Rajeev Kumar Singh of the Indian police. He goes over every step of the crime and identifies its perpetrators as members of an exclusive cult dedicated to a demonic spirit with fearsome earthly powers. The chief suspects include the leading figures of a society devoted to the cult of Gyalpo Shugden, whose headquarters are to be found in the heart of Delhi’s Tibetan exile neighborhood. Raimondo Bultrini, an investigative journalist, decides to open a new trail by reconstructing the mystical aspect of the events. The Dalai Lama himself, determined to combat the sectarian outlook fostered in the name of the "king demon" by a group within the clergy of the Gelukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, reveals to Bultrini hitherto secret religious and historical details regarding the impact of the cult. Recent events and developments seem to bear out his perspective, since many Gyalpo Shugden followers have found common ground with the Chinese authorities. The links between these renegade lamas and the Communist regime are becoming stronger, creating an alliance aimed at removing all traces of the Dalai Lama’s lineage from Tibet’s future. This is the first major exposé of this intriguing struggle at the heart of the mysticism and politics surrounding the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan quest for freedom.

Author : René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004214383

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Oracles and Demons of Tibet by René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz Pdf

This book is a study of the Tibetan protective deities, those gods worshipped by the Tibetans as protectors and guardians of Buddhism.

Author : Béla Kelényi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art mongol - Expositions
ISBN : 9637098887

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Demons and Protectors by Béla Kelényi Pdf

Author : Fokke Sierksma
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Art, Tibetan
ISBN : UCSD:31822023797186

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Tibet's Terrifying Deities by Fokke Sierksma Pdf

Author : Cameron Bailey,Aleksandra Wenta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350354968

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Tibetan Magic by Cameron Bailey,Aleksandra Wenta Pdf

This book focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both pre-modern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. It offers a new understanding of the identity and role of magical specialists in both historical and contemporary contexts. Combining the theoretical approaches of anthropology, ethnography, religious and textual studies, the book aims to shed light on experiences, practices and practitioners that have been frequently marginalized by the normative mainstream monastic Buddhist traditions and Western Buddhist scholarship, which focuses primarily on meditation and philosophy. The book explores the intersection between magic/folk practices and Tantra, a complex, socio-religious phenomenon associated not only with the religious and political elites who sponsored it, but also with 'marginal' ethnic groups and social milieus, as well as with lay communities at large, who resorted to ritual agents to fulfil their worldly needs.

Author : Gábor Klaniczay,Éva Pócs,Eszter Csonka-Takács
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789637326769

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Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology by Gábor Klaniczay,Éva Pócs,Eszter Csonka-Takács Pdf

This is the second volume of a series of three, containing seventeen essays of altogether forty-three articles based on the topics of the interdisciplinary conference held on "Demons, spirits, and witches" in Budapest. Recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. After a first volume, published in 2005, on "Communicating with the Spirits", the studies in the present volume examine the manifold interchanges between learned and popular culture, and its repercussions on magical belief-system and the changing figure of the witch. Book jacket.

Author : Matthew T. Kapstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195348507

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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism by Matthew T. Kapstein Pdf

This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.

Author : Matthew T. Kapstein Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago Divinity School
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198030072

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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism : Conversion, Contestation, and Memory by Matthew T. Kapstein Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago Divinity School Pdf

This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.

Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786488940

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Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures by Theresa Bane Pdf

This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.

Author : R. Khanam
Publisher : Global Vision Publishing Ho
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Demonology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119807829

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Demonology by R. Khanam Pdf

This Book Is An In-Depth Study Of Demonic Belief And Practices Of Nineteen Important Religious Communities Of The World And Its Impact On Their Socio-Cultural Life From The Beginning Of Civilisation To Contemporary Period. This Study Is Classified Into Two Parts Oriental Demonology And Occidental Demonology.

Author : James Duncan,Derek Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134721252

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Writes of Passage by James Duncan,Derek Gregory Pdf

Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece.

Author : Sam van Schaik
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611808254

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Buddhist Magic by Sam van Schaik Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the role that magic has played in the history of Buddhism As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients. Studying this history, scholar Sam van Schaik concludes that magic and healing have played a key role in Buddhism's flourishing, yet they have rarely been studied in academic circles or by Western practitioners. The exclusion of magical practices and powers from most discussions of Buddhism in the modern era can be seen as part of the appropriation of Buddhism by Westerners, as well as an effect of modernization movements within Asian Buddhism. However, if we are to understand the way Buddhism has worked in the past, the way it still works now in many societies, and the way it can work in the future, we need to examine these overlooked aspects of Buddhist practice. In Buddhist Magic, van Schaik takes a book of spells and rituals--one of the earliest that has survived--from the Silk Road site of Dunhuang as the key reference point for discussing Buddhist magic in Tibet and beyond. After situating Buddhist magic within a cross-cultural history of world magic, he discusses sources of magic in Buddhist scripture, early Buddhist rituals of protection, medicine and the spread of Buddhism, and magic users. Including material from across the vast array of Buddhist traditions, van Schaik offers readers a fascinating, nuanced view of a topic that has too long been ignored.

Author : Christopher Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197533352

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The Dalai Lama and the Nechung Oracle by Christopher Bell Pdf

"This book is about two immortals whose friendship has spanned nearly five hundred years across the Tibetan plateau and beyond. The first immortal is the Dalai Lama, the emanation of a bodhisattva, an enlightened being who voluntarily takes rebirth in the world to benefit sentient beings. The second immortal is a wrathful god named Pehar, who has possessed the Nechung Oracle since the sixteenth century. This book is the first to examine the relationship between these two monolithic figures that began in the seventeenth century during the reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682). This study is also the first extensive examination of the famed Nechung Oracle and his institution. In the seventeenth century, the protector deity Pehar and his oracle at Nechung Monastery were state-sanctioned by the nascent Tibetan government, becoming the head of an expansive pantheon of worldly deities assigned to protect the newly unified country. While the Fifth Dalai Lama and his government endorsed Pehar as part of his larger unification project, the governments of later Dalai Lamas continued to expand the deity's influence, and by extension their own, by ritually establishing Pehar at monasteries and temples around Lhasa and across Tibet. Pehar's cult at Nechung Monastery came to embody the Dalai Lama's administrative control in a mutually beneficial relationship of protection and prestige, the effects of which continue to reverberate within Tibet and among the Tibetan exile community today"--

Author : Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758179642

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Oracles and Demons of Tibet by Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz Pdf