Identity, ritual and state in Tibetan Buddhism : the foundations of authority in Gelukpa monasticism / Martin A. Mills.
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نصالسلاسل:RoutledgeCurzon studies in tantric traditions | RoutledgeCurzon studies in tantric traditionsالناشر:London ; New York : Routledge, 2010وصف:xxi, 404 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
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- 9780415591386 (pbk)
- 0415591384 (pbk)
- 9780700714704
- 0700714707
- BQ7576 M55 2010
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"First published in 2008. Transferred to Digital Printing 2010."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-385) and index.
Part I: The Face of Monasticism -- Part II: Truth and Hierarchy in Tantric Ritual -- Part III: Local Rites -- Part IV: Authority and the Personin Gelukpa Monasticism -- Part V: Ideology, Ritual and State.
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. Containing detailed descriptions and analyses of monastic ritual, the work builds up a picture of Tibetan tantric traditions as they interact with more localised understandings of bodily identity and territorial cosmology, to produce a substantial re-interpretation of the place of monks as ritual performers and peripheral householders in Ladakh. The work also examines the central and indispensable role of incarnate lamas, such as the Dalai Lama, in the religious life of Tibetan Buddhists
