Lineages of the Literary (eBook)

Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China

Nicole Willock (Autor)

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2021
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-55196-0 (ISBN)

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Winner, 2024 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize, Association for Asian StudiesHonorable Mention, 2023 Joseph Levenson Prize Post-1900, Association for Asian StudiesIn the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People's Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Renowned as the "e;Three Polymaths,"e; Tseten Zhabdrung (1910-1985), Muge Samten (1914-1993), and Dungkar Lozang Trinle (1927-1997) earned this symbolic title for their efforts to keep the lamp of the Dharma lit even in the darkest hour of Tibetan history.Lineages of the Literary reveals how the Three Polymaths negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era. Nicole Willock explores their contributions to reviving Tibetan Buddhism, expanding Tibetan literary arts, and pioneering Tibetan studies as an academic discipline. Her sophisticated reading of Tibetan-language sources vivifies the capacious literary world of the Three Polymaths, including autobiography, Buddhist philosophy, poetic theory, and historiography. Whereas prevailing state-centric accounts place Tibetan religious figures in China in one of two roles, collaborator or resistance fighter, Willock shows how the Three Polymaths offer an alternative model of agency. She illuminates how they by turns safeguarded, taught, and celebrated Tibetan Buddhist knowledge, practices, and institutions after their near destruction during the Cultural Revolution.An interdisciplinary work spanning religious studies, history, literary studies, and social theory, Lineages of the Literary offers new insight into the categories of religion and the secular, the role of Tibetan Buddhist leaders in modern China, and the contested ground of Tibet.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b&w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Dungkar Lozang Trinlé • Mugé Samten • Sino-Tibetan relations • Three Polymaths • Tibetan Buddhism • Tibet and China • Tséten Zhabdrung
• ISBN-10: 0-231-55196-7 / 0231551967
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-55196-0 / 9780231551960