Description |
1 online resource (168 pages) |
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Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism |
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Routledge critical studies in Buddhism.
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Contents |
Cover; Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Biographical process; Intersubjectivity; Darjeeling; The narrative; Notes; 2 Relics and reincarnation of Khenchen Sangay Tenzin; Discussing the lama's death; Minds beyond death; The reincarnated lama; Religious biography; Bodies of devotional practice; Extended biography; Notes; 3 The spiritual mastery or (spirit possession) of Gupha Rinpoche; Ethnographic scholarship: revisiting the polemic; Tibetan scholarship: historical influences |
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Introducing GuphaTextures and grammars of a monastic college; Scholasticism and saintly madmen; Rhythms of a saintly madman; An irregular tempo; Divided opinions; Dying; Death and memorialization; The rising corpse; Return from the dead; Possession and reincarnation; Maintaining plurality; Notes; 4 Embodying the past in the present: Gelongma Palmo; Previous scholarship: locating Gelongma Palmo; Setting the scene: karma, merit and rebirth; Literacy; The sacred repetition of hagiography; Nyungne: transforming body, speech and mind; Prostrations; Varieties of communication |
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Acts of speech: vows, mantras and the ritual manualThe sounds of silence; Imagining the deity; Sensing the social; Notes; 5 Buddhism across cultures: Bokar Rinpoche; Tibetan Buddhist embodiment; Trikaya: the bodies of a Buddha; Cultural adaptations; Cultural innovations; Notes; 6 Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Contextualising the seemingly esoteric and exotic aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture within the everyday, embodied and sensual sphere of religious praxis, this book centres on the social and religious lives of deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas. It explores how posterior forms - corpses, relics, reincarnations and hagiographical representations - extend a lama's trajectory of lives and manipulate biological imperatives of birth and death. The book looks closely at previously unexamined figures whose history is relevant to a better understanding of how Tibetan culture navigates it |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-143) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Reincarnate lamas -- Tibet Region -- Biography
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Reincarnation -- Buddhism.
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Future life -- Buddhism.
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Buddhism -- Social aspects -- India -- Darjeeling
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Tibetans -- India -- Darjeeling -- Religion
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Buddhism -- Social aspects
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Future life -- Buddhism
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Reincarnate lamas
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Reincarnation -- Buddhism
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Tibetans -- Religion
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Tibet Region
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India -- Darjeeling
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781134593699 |
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1134593694 |
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