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World of worldly gods : the persistence and transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan / Kelzang T. Tashi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tashi, Kelzang T., author.
- Series:
- AAR religion, culture, and history.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- AAR religion, culture, and history
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bon (Tibetan religion)--Bhutan--Zhemgang (District).
- Bon (Tibetan religion).
- Shamanism--Bhutan--Zhemgang (District).
- Shamanism.
- Buddhism--Bhutan--Zhemgang (District).
- Buddhism.
- Religion and culture--Bhutan--Zhemgang (District).
- Religion and culture.
- Social change--Bhutan--Zhemgang (District).
- Social change.
- Zhemgang (Bhutan : District)--Religious life and customs.
- Zhemgang (Bhutan : District).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This anthropological study examines the changing relationship between Shamanic Bon and Buddhism through an ethnography of the Goleng village and its neighbours in Zhemgang district in central Bhutan. It is concerned with how Bon practices have persisted in villages despite the systematised opposition from Buddhist priests for over one thousand years, and in the last three centuries, from the Buddhist state itself. In investigating this issue, this book presents the ways in which Buddhists seek to control the Bon priests in the villages against the backdrop of local religious history and document the centrality of Bon beliefs in shaping people's everyday lives.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series
- World of Worldly Gods
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Orthography
- 1. Introduction
- Multiple Identities
- Bon in Bhutan
- Great and Little Traditions?
- Fieldwork and Methodology
- Structure of the Book
- 2. Goleng Village in Zhemgang District
- Three Ridges of Zhemgang
- Goleng Village
- Social Organization: Dung, Kudrung, Pirpön, and Mamai Lineage Houses
- The Goleng Dung Nobility and Lineage Deities
- The Founding of Buddhist Temples in Goleng
- 3. Soul Loss and Retrieval
- The Fluidity of Five Life Elements
- Common Rituals for Strengthening Declining Life Elements
- The Primordial Bon Ritual for Recapturing the Abducted Soul
- The Local Divinities of the Golengpa Bon Pantheon
- 4. Dealing with Threats to Health and Welfare
- Protective and Healing Rituals
- The Big Gyalpo Beings
- Gyalpo Shul Du: The Ritual of Dispatching the Big Gyalpo to His Palace
- The Small or Familial Gyalpo Spirits
- Autochthonous Demons
- Demonesses and Witches
- Discerning the Sondre Host
- Shartsen: The Eastern Mountain Deities
- Poison Givers: We Are Pure and Clean People
- Treating the Poison Attack
- Gyalpo, Sondre, and Duk Beings as Economy-Generating Spirits
- 5. Controlling the Bon Priests
- Lu'i Bonpo: Becoming a Lu Specialist
- The Ritual of Releasing Trapped Serpent Spirits
- Ways of Becoming a Bonpo Shaman
- The Shamanic Retrieval of Lost Souls
- The Official Bonpos of Zhemgang
- The Official Bonpo of Goleng
- Bonpos in Court
- The Politics of Black Magic Rituals
- 6. The Annual Rup Ritual
- The Significance of Rup to the Dung Nobility
- Rup Rules and Consequences
- Outline of the Rup Rite
- Dham Dham: Rup Divinities, Divinations, and Sealing Rites
- The Rites of the First, Second, and Third Days of Rup
- Rup and Its Future.
- 7. Phallic Rituals and Pernicious Gossip
- Phallic Symbols
- The Antigossip Ritual
- The Phallic Rituals of the Annual Chodpa
- The Buddhist Phallic Ritual Cake
- The Phallic Rituals by the Gadpo
- 8. Buddhist Accommodation of Bon Rites and Practices
- The Annual Propitiatory Ritual of Local Deities and Demons
- Buddhist Versions of the Odé Gungyal Ritual
- Child Gods and Naming Patterns
- The Former Clerical Bon Temple
- 9. The Persistence and Transformation of Golengpa Religiosity
- Buddhism, Shamanic Bon, and Clerical Bon
- From Oral/Literary to Mundane/Supramundane Distinctions
- Syncretism and the Politics of Religion
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendix: Phonetic Renderings of Local Terms
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 27, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-766988-3
- 0-19-766989-1
- 0-19-766987-5
- OCLC:
- 1378937001
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