Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780190690779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str.

Ruth Gamble

Opis

Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339) transformed reincarnation from a belief into a Tibetan tradition. It surveys his life through the portal of his previously untranslated autobiographical stories and songs, which reveal how his contribution to this tradition's invention.

Recenzje

Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism marks a refreshingly new approach to unraveling the presuppositions, lingering sentiments and conceptual strategies behind the third Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé's reinvention of the oldest documented lineage in Tibet, drawing here from the incarnate's personal and surprisingly informative writings. A most welcome contribution that covers the transitional process from its incipient beginnings until it turned into a full-fledged tradition.

O autorze

Ruth Gamble is a cultural and environmental historian of Tibet and the Himalaya. She received her Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 2014, and previously held a one-year post-doctoral position at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Before entering academia, she worked as a journalist and an interpreter in Australia, Japan and India. She is now a David Myers Fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.