The Selfless Ego: Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367693985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 274 str.

Lucia Galli; Franz Xaver Erhard

Opis

This volume is the first to approach Tibetan life writing from a literary and narratological perspective, encompassing a wide range of disciplines, themes, media, and historical periods, and thus opening new and vibrant areas of research to future scholarship across the Humanities.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Memory and Imagination in Tibetan Hagiographical Writing  1. Between Self-Expression and Convention: Tibetan Reflections on Autobiographical Writing  2. Nested Autobiography: Life Writing Within Larger Works  3. From Song to Biography and from Biography to Song: The Use of gur in Marpa’s namthar  4. The namthar in Khalkha Dzaya Paṇḍita Lobsang Trinle (1642–1715)’s Clear Mirror  5. Reincarnation and Personal Identity in The Lives of Tibetan Masters: Linking the Revelations of Three Lamas of the Dudjom Tradition  6. Traces of Female Voices and Women’s Lives in Tibetan Male Sacred Biography  7. Forest Walking, Meditation and Sore Feet: The Southern Buddhist Biographical Tradition of Ajahn Mun and His Followers  Part II: Conjuring Tibetan Lives  8. Memory, Politics, and Peace in the Autobiography of Sumpa Khenpo  9. Genealogy, Autobiography, Memoir: The Secular Life Narrative of Doring Tenzin Penjor  10. The Crafting Memory of the Self. Reflections on Tibetan Diary-Keeping  11. Family Matters: Women’s Spaces and Quiet Truths in House of the Turquoise Roof and Dalai Lama, My Son  12. The Wandering Voice of Tibet: Life and Songs of Dubhe  13. Bearers of the Past, Bridges with the Beyond: The Complicated Lives of Ordinary Objects