Dan Smyer Yu

The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China (eBook, ePUB)

Charisma, Money, Enlightenment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals.

Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy. The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to different religious, cultural, and political constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of China's politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local and global transformative changes. The book is a useful contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136633744
• Artikelnr.: 38273665

Autorenporträt

Dan Smyer Yu is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Mise-en-scene of Tibetan Buddhism in China 2. Tulkus
Genuine Charisma
and Its Transmissible Interiority in Kham and Amdo 3. Spirit Mountains
Sacred Sites
and Territorial Charisma 4. Pilgrimage from Han China to High Altitude Enlightenment 5. Money
Freedom
and the Price of Charismatic Teachings 6. Re-understanding Scientism
Scapegoating
and the Marginality of Religion in China from a Tibetan Perspective 7. Buddhism
Ethnic Nationalism
Destigmatization of Tibet in the Cyberspace of Urban Tibetans 8. Conclusion: Globalization
Performance Religion
Mindscaping the Eco-Buddhist Tibet