Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet Religious Revival and Cultural Identity

Name: Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet Religious Revival and Cultural Identity
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ISBN: 9780520211308

ISBN-10: 0520211308

ISBN-13: 9780520211308

Edition: 1998

Authors: Melvyn C. Goldstein, Matthew T. Kapstein, Orville Schnell

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Following 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…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/27/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 235
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword




Introduction




The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery




Re-membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People's Republic of China




A Pilgrimage of Rebirth Reborn: The 1992 Celebration of the Drigung Powa Chenmo




Ritual, Ethnicity, and Generational Identity




Concluding Reflections




Spellings of Tibetan Names and Terms


Notes


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index