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The social life of Tibetan biography : textuality, community, and authority in the lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa.
Van Pelt Library BQ984.A497 H65 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Amy, author.
- Series:
- Studies in modern Tibetan culture
- Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Śākya-śrī, Rtogs-ldan, 1853-1919.
- Śākya-śrī.
- Gurus--Tibet Region--Biography.
- Gurus.
- Tantric Buddhism--Social aspects--Tibet Region--History.
- Tantric Buddhism.
- Tantric Buddhism--Social aspects.
- History.
- Tibet Region.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
- Summary:
- The Social Life of Tibetan Biography: Textuality, Community, and Authority in the Lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri explores the creation of Tibetan religious authority in Tibetan cultural areas throughout East, Inner, and South Asia through engaging with the relationship between textual biography and social community in the case of the Eastern Tibetan yogi Tokden Shakya Shri (185 - 919). This book explores the different mechanisms used by Shakya Shri's community in the creation of his biographical portrait to develop his lineage, including the use of biographical tropes, details of interpersonal connections, educational and patronage networks, and representations of sacred site creation and maintenance. In doing so, this study decenters Tibetan and Himalayan religious history by recognizing that peripheries could act as alternative centers of authority for diverse Tibetan Buddhist communities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Textual networks: the biography
- Contextual networks: temporal, spatial and conceptual landscapes in the life of Shakya Shri
- Interpersonal networks: the politics of friendship and alternative institutions in the religious education of Shakya Shri
- Visionary networks: representing visionary power and the miraculous in The Garland of Flowers
- Networks of advertising: Shakya Shri's renovations of the stūpas in Kathmandu valley
- Networks of bone sons: the family lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri
- Networks of heart sons: the students of Tokden Shakya Shri
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739165195
- 0739165194
- OCLC:
- 881386448
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