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Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism - In-Between Bodies (Hardcover, New)
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Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism - In-Between Bodies (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
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Contextualising the seemingly esoteric and exotic aspects of
Tibetan Buddhist culture within the everyday, embodied and sensual
sphere of religious praxis, this book centres on the social and
religious lives of deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas. It explores how
posterior forms - corpses, relics, reincarnations and
hagiographical representations - extend a lama's trajectory of
lives and manipulate biological imperatives of birth and death. The
book looks closely at previously unexamined figures whose history
is relevant to a better understanding of how Tibetan culture
navigates its own understanding of reincarnation, the veneration of
relics and different social roles of different types of
practitioners. It analyses both the minutiae of everyday
interrelations between lamas and their devotees, specifically noted
in ritual performances and the enactment of lived tradition, and
the sacred hagiographical conventions that underpin local
knowledge. A phenomenology of Tibetan Buddhist life, the book
provides an ethnography of the everyday embodiment of Tibetan
Buddhism. This unusual approach offers a valuable and a genuine new
perspective on Tibetan Buddhist culture and is of interest to
researchers in the fields of social/cultural anthropology and
religious, Buddhist and Tibetan studies.
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