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Can a Coke Can Be Sacred?: Tantric Television and Supposedly Mundane Objects in Khyentse Norbu's the Cup |
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Whalen-Bridge, John (著)
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Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief
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| Volume | v.11 n.4 |
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| Date | 2015 |
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| Pages | 527 - 547 |
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| Publisher | Bloomsbury Journals |
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http://www.bloomsbury.com/journals
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| Location | London, UK [倫敦, 英國] |
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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 | John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Profes-sor of English at the National University of Singapore. |
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| Keyword | sacred; profane; tantra; emptiness; television; football; monastery; cinema |
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| Abstract | Khyentse Norbu’s 1999 film The Cup came in the wake of several major Hollywood films that presented Tibetan Buddhism as a foil to Western secular modernity. Norbu’s film is organized around an apparent opposition between sacred and profane space and activities. While it is possible to see this opposition as relatively stable, a set of objects in the film shows the apparently stable hierarchy to be illusory. By considering the presentation of these objects in relation to Vajrayana teachings given by The Cup’s director and other prominent Tibetan teachers, we can see that the film has a muted or “esoteric” subtext in which apparently worldly possessions participate in ritual-like exchanges that result in shared experiences of relative liberation. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 528
Devotional Subtext: Stones Singing to Padmasambhava 531
The Logic of the Cup 534
Sharpening the Sword of Mañjuśrī, Walking in the Shoes of Shantideva 540
Rewind, Replay, Repeat 544
Notes and References 545
Filmography 547 |
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| ISSN | 17432200 (P); 17518342 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2015.1103481 |
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| Hits | 97 |
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| Created date | 2023.08.03 |
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| Modified date | 2023.08.03 |
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