Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint-Making and Ascetic Performance. Magdalena Maria Turek

Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint-Making and Ascetic Performance

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ISBN: 9781032802954 | 224 pages | 6 Mb

Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint-Making and Ascetic Performance
Magdalena Maria Turek
Page: 224
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ISBN: 9781032802954
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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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 (eleventh/twelfth century), the ascetic master Tsultrim Tarchin is believed to have achieved liberation “in this body and life,” demonstrating that renunciation can be empowering and that 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 book 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.

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