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Author Zivkovic, Tanya

Title Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism : In-Between Bodies
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (168 pages)
Series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Routledge critical studies in Buddhism.
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
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
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
Reincarnation -- Buddhism.
Future life -- Buddhism.
Buddhism -- Social aspects -- India -- Darjeeling
Tibetans -- India -- Darjeeling -- Religion
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Buddhism -- Social aspects
Future life -- Buddhism
Reincarnate lamas
Reincarnation -- Buddhism
Tibetans -- Religion
Tibet Region
India -- Darjeeling
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134593699
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