ISBN:
9780197669860
,
9780197669891
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 287 Seiten
Series Statement:
Religion, Culture, and History
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tashi, Kelzang T. World of worldly gods
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tashi, Kelzang T. World of Worldly Gods
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Australian National University 2020
DDC:
299.5/4
Keywords:
Bon (Tibetan religion)
;
Shamanism
;
Buddhism
;
Religion and culture
;
Social change
;
ART / Asian
;
Asian history
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
Buddhism
;
Buddhismus
;
Oriental religions
;
Ostasiatische Religionen
;
RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
;
RELIGION / Eastern
;
Zhemgang (Bhutan : District) Religious life and customs
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Bhutan
;
Tibetischer Buddhismus
;
Bon-Religion
Abstract:
"In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested, in the presence of the invalidating force-Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, he investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to practice and engage with Bon that has survived over a millennium of impatience from a dominant Buddhist religious structure. Against the backdrop of long-standing debates around practices unsystematically identified as 'Bon', and how they relate to what anthropologists refer to as syncretism, he reframes the often stale and scholastic debates by providing the most clear and succinct statement on how these practices should be conceived in the region. Kelzang T. Tashi argues that the reasons for the tenacity of Bon practices and beliefs amid censures by the Buddhists are manifold and complex. While a significant reason for the persistence of Bon is the recency of formal Buddhist institutions in Goleng, he demonstrates that Bon beliefs are so deeply embedded in village social life that some Buddhists paradoxically feel it necessary to reach a rather awkward accommodation with the Bon priests. Through an analysis of the relationship between Shamanistic Bon and Buddhism, and the contemporary dynamics of Bhutanese society, Kelzang T. Tashi tackles the longstanding concern of anthropology: cultural persistence and change, discusses the mutual accommodation and syncretism between Buddhism and Bon, and offers fresh perspectives on the central distinguishing features of Great and Little Traditions"--
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Australian National University, 2020, under the title: Contested past, challenging future : an ethnography of pre-Buddhist Bon religious practices in central Bhutan
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197669860.001.0001
URL:
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