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Identity, ritual and state in Tibetan Buddhism : the foundations of authority in Gelukpa monasticism /
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 d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2003.
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| Colección: | RoutledgeCurzon studies in tantric traditions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 performer. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136854675 1136854673 9781315028880 1315028883 9781136854811 1136854819 9781136854743 1136854746 9780415591386 0415591384 |