Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa MonasticismPsychology Press, 2003 - 404 páginas This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. |
Índice
The View from Above | 5 |
Tantra and State in Tibetan History | 12 |
Conclusion | 24 |
Monastic Lives | 39 |
The Structure of Offices in Kumbum | 45 |
Iconography Authority and Truth in Buddhist Tantra | 85 |
Tantric Practice at Kumbum | 121 |
Care and Cosmology in Lingshed | 147 |
AUTHORITY AND THE PERSON IN GELUKPA | 233 |
Local Gods and the Embodied Person in Lingshed | 243 |
Characterising Incarnates | 263 |
Hierarchy and Precedent in Gelukpa Monasticism | 295 |
Ideology Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism | 329 |
The Ritual Calendar of Lingshed | 348 |
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Bibliography | 371 |
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Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority ... Martin A. Mills Pré-visualização limitada - 2013 |
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