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Author Mills, Martin A.

Title Identity, ritual and state in Tibetan Buddhism : the foundations of authority in Gelukpa monasticism / Martin A. Mills.

Publication Info. London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
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Description 1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series RoutledgeCurzon studies in tantric traditions
RoutledgeCurzon studies in tantric traditions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part one. The face of monasticism -- part two. Truth and hierarchy in tantric ritual -- part three. Local rites -- part four. Authority and the person in Gelukpa monasticism -- part five. Ideology, ritual and state.
Summary 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. <BR>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 performer.
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Subject Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.
Authority -- Religious aspects.
Authority -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: 9780700714704 9780415591386
ISBN 9781136854675 (electronic book)
1136854673 (electronic book)
9781315028880 (electronic book)
1315028883 (electronic book)
0700714707
9780700714704

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