RT Book
T1 The spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: charisma, money, enlightenment
T2 Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
A1 Yü, Dan Smyer
A1 Yu, Dan 1962-
LA English
PP London New York
PB Routledge
YR 2012
ED first published
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/655805273
AB "Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy. The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to different religious, cultural, and political constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of China's politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local and global transformative changes. The book is a useful contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese studies"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BQ647
SN 9780415575324
SN 041557532X
SN 9781138024892
K1 Buddhism : China : History : 20th century
K1 Buddhism : China : Tibet Autonomous Region
K1 Religion and sociology : China
K1 Tibetischer Buddhismus
K1 Ausbreitung
K1 China
K1 Geschichte
K1 Buddhism : China : Sichuan Sheng
K1 Buddhism : China : Qinghai Sheng
K1 Religion and sociology : China : Sichuan Sheng
K1 Religion and sociology : China : Qinghai Sheng
K1 Sichuan Sheng (China) : Religion
K1 Qinghai Sheng (China) : Religion
K1 Sichuan Sheng (China) : Social conditions
K1 Qinghai Sheng (China) : Social conditions