Identity ritual and state in tibetan buddhism

Zusatztext 'Martin A. Mills's account takes the reader ... through a tour de force exposition of Tibetan culture! society! and religion.' - The Journal of Asian Studies Informationen zum Autor Martin A. Mills Klappentext This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in Ladakh, and of the role of tantric ritual in traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. Zusammenfassung This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in Ladakh, and of the role of tantric ritual in traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Face of Monasticism Part II: Truth and Hierarchy in Tantric Ritual Part III: Local Rites Part IV: Authority and the Personin Gelukpa Monasticism Part V: Ideology, Ritual and State

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Martin A. Mills, martin a Mills, Mills Martin A.
• Verlag: External catalogues US
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2002
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein
• EAN: 9780700714704
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-1470-4
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 16.2 x 24 x 2.8 cm
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions
• Themen: RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist political authority, Ladakh anthropology, Tantric ritual studies, monastic hierarchy analysis, Tibetan religious cosmology, ritual and state formation in Ladakh, incarnate lamas