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Buddhist hermits in Eastern Tibet : saint-making and ascetic performance / Magdalena Maria Turek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turek, Magdalena Maria, author.
- Series:
- Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
- Routledge critical studies in buddhism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meditation--Buddhism.
- Meditation.
- Buddhist monks--China (Tibet Autonomous Region).
- Buddhist monks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Endorsements
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- About this book
- Particulars of the case study
- Approach and methodologies
- Textual sources
- Tibetan hermetism and its recent history in Nangchen
- Typologies and social functions of retreat practice
- Meditation schools: Beyond the dichotomy of the anchoritic and the cenobitic
- Key terms used in this book
- Charisma
- Asceticism
- Meditation and tantra
- 2. The living saint
- Tsultrim Tarchin, the Third Milarepa
- Milarepa as a paradigm for sainthood
- The ascetic practice of tummo
- Tummo as a quest for power
- 3. From householder to saint
- In this very body and life
- The narrative politics of saint-making
- The life of Tsultrim Tarchin
- In this body
- Obscurity and fame
- The hermit and the environment
- 4. Performing sainthood
- Re-enacting the story of sainthood
- Founding Lapchi
- Channeling charisma through the white robe
- 5. The meditation school of Lapchi
- The backdrop of Lapchi as a religious field
- Chapti in the past
- Topography
- Lapchi as maṇḍala and cosmic mountain
- The cosmic hut
- 6. Veneration and emulation at Lapchi
- Performing devotion
- The community
- Hermitage rules and customs
- Cooperation between Lapchi and Yachen
- The curriculum
- An etic perspective on the curriculum
- Ascetic dialogue
- 7. The empowerment of renunciation
- Gradual progress and affirmation
- Renunciation as counterculture
- Reconnection: closing the cycle of renunciation
- 8. Community of liberation
- Glossary
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Turek, Magdalena Maria. Buddhist hermits in Eastern Tibet
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781003496274
- 100349627X
- 9781040380772
- 1040380778
- 1040380751
- 9781040380758
- Publisher Number:
- 90104306824
- CIPO000228076
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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