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Renunciation and Longing - The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint (Paperback)
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Renunciation and Longing - The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint (Paperback)
Series: Buddhism and Modernity
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Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu
Lama, this study reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary
of traditional and modern. In the early twentieth century, Khunu
Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters
while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and
water. Yet this elusive wandering renunciant became a revered
teacher of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At Khunu Lama's death in
1977, he was mourned by Himalayan nuns, Tibetan lamas, and American
meditators alike. The many surviving stories about him reveal
significant dimensions of Tibetan Buddhism, shedding new light on
questions of religious affect and memory that reimagines cultural
continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. In
Renunciation and Longing, Annabella Pitkin explores devotion,
renunciation, and the teacher-student lineage relationship as
resources for understanding Tibetan Buddhist approaches to
modernity. By examining narrative accounts of the life of a
remarkable twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist and focusing on his
remembered identity as a renunciant bodhisattva, Pitkin illuminates
Tibetan and Himalayan practices of memory, affective connection,
and mourning. Refuting long-standing caricatures of Tibetan
Buddhist communities as unable to be modern because of their
religious commitments, Pitkin shows instead how twentieth- and
twenty-first-century Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist narrators have
used themes of renunciation, devotion, and lineage as touchstones
for negotiating loss and vitalizing continuity.
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