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Noble Paganism: Orientalist Discourse on Tibetan Buddhism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Polemic Literature |
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Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (著)
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Inner Asia
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| Volume | v.17 n.2 Special Issue |
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| Date | 2015.12 |
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| Pages | 199 - 224 |
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| Publisher | Brill |
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http://www.brill.nl/
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| Location | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia |
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| Keyword | Russian empire; Tibetan Buddhism; orientalism; Russian Orthodox Church; missionaries; polemic literature |
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| Abstract | Tibetan Buddhism, in the eyes of Orthodox Christian polemicists, was always seen as a harmful paganism, and fighting against this 'superstition' was a high priority. Based on analysis of nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox missionary articles, this paper examines the stereotyped portrayal of Tibetan Buddhism as a civilisational opponent to Christianity, and the ways Russian scholars, ethnographers, philosophers, and officials either supported or challenged this view. In this paper, I argue that, in Russia, the Orientalist paradigm is common to a greater degree among Christian clergy than in academic circles due to the status of a dominating religion the Orthodoxy enjoyed in Russia. The Russian missionaries' support of imperial power was the essential factor. The clerics viewed themselves as carriers not only of Christian values, but also of the idea of Russian statehood and European civilisation in general. Russian Christian intellectuals repeatedly attempted to comprehend Buddhism rationally, but these attempts were highly formalistic. For them, academic study was never an end in itself, but, I argue, a convenient tool to achieve ideological domination and establish moral authority. However, their intellectual and psychological inability to view other religions as different, rather than false, was, and still is, an obstacle to mutual understanding and respect between Christianity and Buddhism in today's Russia. |
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| Table of contents | ABSTRACT 199
Keywords 199
INTRODUCTION 200
Terra Nullius 201
The Second World 202
'Idol-worshippers not Knowing God' 204
'A Fanatical Superstition and Persistent Opposition to Christianity' 205
'A Real Disaster for Siberian Natives' 208
'The Mutilated Teaching of the Buddha' 212
'The Deepest of Pagan Religions' 217
Conclusion 220
Acknowledgements 221
References 221
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| ISSN | 14648172 (P); 22105018 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1163/22105018-12340042 |
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| Created date | 2024.06.19 |
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| Modified date | 2024.06.25 |
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