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Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity
Author Goldstein, Melvyn C. (編) ; Kapstein, Matthew (編) ; Schell, Orville (著)
EditionFirst Edition
Date1998.07
Pages235
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publisher Url http://www.ucpress.edu/
LocationBerkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteMelvyn C. Goldstein is John Reynolds Harkness Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western University. Matthew T. Kapstein is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. His publications include a translation of Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism (1991) and the catalogue and ten-volume edition of The 'Dzam-thang Edition of the Collected Works of Kun-mkhyen Dol-po-pa Shes-rab-rgyal-mtshan (1992/3).
KeywordTibetan Buddhism=西藏佛教=藏傳佛教; Tibet=西藏; 政教關係=Buddhism and Politics
AbstractFollowing the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of that revival is the focus of this book. Four leading specialists in Tibetan anthropology and religion conducted case studies in the Tibet autonomous region and among the Tibetans of Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. There they observed the revival of the Buddhist heritage in monastic communities and among laypersons at popular pilgrimages and festivals. Demonstrating how that revival must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a complex process of social, political, and economic adaptation. Buddhism has long been the main source of Tibetans' pride in their culture and country. These essays reveal the vibrancy of that ancient religion in contemporary Tibet and also the problems that religion and Tibetan culture in general are facing in a radically altered world.

Table of contents1. Introduction
2. The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery
3. Re-Membering the Dismemberred Body of Tibet: Contemparary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People's Republic of China
4. A Pilgrimage of Rebirth Reborn: The 1992Celebration of the Drigung Powa Chenmo
5. Ritual, Ethnicity, and Generational Identity
6. Concluding Reflections
APPENDIX: SPELLINGS OF TIBETAN NAMES AND TERMS
ISBN0520211316; 0520211308
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