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Noble Paganism: Orientalist Discourse on Tibetan Buddhism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Polemic Literature |
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著者 |
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (著)
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掲載誌 |
Inner Asia
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巻号 | v.17 n.2 Special Issue |
出版年月日 | 2015.12 |
ページ | 199 - 224 |
出版者 | Brill |
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http://www.brill.nl/
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出版地 | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
資料の種類 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
言語 | 英文=English |
ノート | Author Affiliation: Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia |
キーワード | Russian empire; Tibetan Buddhism; orientalism; Russian Orthodox Church; missionaries; polemic literature |
抄録 | 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. |
目次 | 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) |
DOI | 10.1163/22105018-12340042 |
ヒット数 | 18 |
作成日 | 2024.06.19 |
更新日期 | 2024.06.25 |
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