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Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master Sog bzlog pa Blo gros rgyal mtshan |
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Gentry, James Duncan (撰)
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| Date | 2014 |
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| Pages | 552 |
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| Publisher | Harvard University |
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https://www.harvard.edu/
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| Location | Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Degree | doctor |
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| Institution | Harvard University |
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| Department | Religion |
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| Advisor | Gyatso, Janet |
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| Publication year | 2014 |
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| Abstract | This thesis is a reflection upon objects of power and their roles in the lives of people through the lens of a single case example: power objects as they appear throughout the narrative, philosophical, and ritual writings of the Tibetan Buddhist ritual specialist Sog bzlog pa Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1552-1624) and his milieu. This study explores their discourse on power objects specifically for what it reveals about how human interactions with certain kinds of objects encourage the flow of power and charisma between them, and what the implications of these person-object transitions were for issues of identity, agency, and authority on the personal, institutional, and state registers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Tibet. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 1
PART I: Objects in Narrative 39
Chapter One: In the Vicinity of Things—Substance, Violence, and Power In the Milieu of Sog bzlog pa Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1552-1624) 40
Chapter Two: Prowess and Persona in the Wielding of Things—Exorcisms, Objects, and Insights in the Life and Literary Career of a Mongol-repelling Scholar-adept 105
PART II: Objects in Theory and Practice 201
Chapter Three: Controversies Over Things—Drawing, Blurring, and Crossing the Boundaries 202
Chapter Four: Things in Action and the Actions of Things—A Dynamic Ontology of Ritual Objects 333
PART III: Aftereffects 440
Chapter Five: Continuities and Contentions Over Things—The Legacy of Sog bzlog pa and the Material Links of Political Authority 441
Final Considerations 506
Bibliography 526 |
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| Hits | 154 |
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| Created date | 2021.12.12 |
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