The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China : Charisma, Money, Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781138024892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str.

Dan Smyer Yu

Opis

This work is concerned with contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in Tibetan regions of China, interpreting the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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