Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet
Saint-Making and Ascetic Performance
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 20 June 2025
- ISBN 9781032802954
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 Illustrations, black & white; 10 Halftones, black & white 700
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Short description:
Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet explores the ritual and social empowerment of Buddhist monastics devoted to meditation under a charismatic master.
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Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet explores the ritual and social empowerment of Buddhist monastics devoted to meditation under a charismatic master.
Based on ethnographic research at a remote hermitage in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province in China, this book examines contemplative practices and ascetic regimes as performances of renunciation, self-formation, and devotion, arguing that the master performs the ideal of Buddhist asceticism via his body and in front of a participant audience. Paralleling Tibet?s famed hermit Milarepa (11/12th century), the ascetic master Tsultrim Tarchin is believed to have achieved liberation "in this body and life," demonstrating that renunciation can be empowering and elite practices and local tradition can be relatable to untrained laity and transnational practitioners alike. Providing new insights and capturing a vital aspect of the ethno-religious revival among Tibetans in China, this publication enhances our understanding of Buddhist meditation in retreat and of the social and embodied dimensions of spiritual liberation.
This book will be of interest to academic researchers and students of Buddhism, Religion, Anthropology and Asian Studies.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. The Living Saint 3. From Householder to Saint 4. Performing Sainthood 5. The Meditation School of Lapchi 6. Veneration and Emulation at Lapchi 7. The Empowerment of Renunciation 8. Community of Liberation
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