Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism
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Author_Martin A. Mills
Buddha Sakyamuni
Buddhist political authority
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Category=QD
Category=QRA
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Dalai Lama
Dalai Lamas
Dharma Protectors
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Guru Rinpoche
High Lamas
Household Estates
Incarnate Lama
incarnate lamas
Kumbum Monastery
Ladakh anthropology
Local Gods
Main Prayer Hall
monastic hierarchy analysis
Monastic Quarters
Natal Households
Offering Cake
Ordinary Monks
Panchen Lamas
ritual and state formation in Ladakh
Ritual Authority
Samuel 1993a
Sand Mandala
Social Reproduction
Tantric Empowerment
TANTRIC RITUAL
tantric ritual studies
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhist Culture
Tibetan religious cosmology
Tutelary Deity
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- ISBN 9780700714704
- Weight: 960g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet.
Containing detailed descriptions and analyses of monastic ritual, the work builds up a picture of Tibetan tantric traditions as they interact with more localised understandings of bodily identity and territorial cosmology, to produce a substantial re-interpretation of the place of monks as ritual performers and peripheral householders in Ladakh. The work also examines the central and indispensable role of incarnate lamas, such as the Dalai Lama, in the religious life of Tibetan Buddhists.
