Joshua Esler

Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese (eBook, PDF)

Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This study analyzes the growing appeal of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It examines the Tibetan tradition's historical context and its social, cultural, and political adaptation to Chinese society, as well as the effects on Han practitioners. The author's analysis is based on fieldwork in all three locations and includes a broad range of interlocutors, such as Tibetan religious teachers, Han practitioners, and lay Tibetans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978750708
• Artikelnr.: 74829933

Autorenporträt

Joshua Esler is lecturer and researcher in Asian studies at Sheridan College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tibetan Buddhism as a Worldview
Chapter One: The State, Popular Imagination, and Traditional Chinese
Cosmology
Chapter Two: Superscribing New Meaning on Guan Gong, the Chinese 'God of
War'
Chapter Three: The Confucian Revival and Tibetan Buddhism
Chapter Four: Pragmatism, Protestantism and Tibetan Buddhism in Hong Kong
Chapter Five: Tibetan Deities and Spirits in a Multilayered Tibetan
Landscape
Chapter Six: Chinese Ghosts and Tibetan Buddhism
Conclusion: Tibetan Buddhism Engaging Contemporary China: Continuity,
Change, and Authenticity