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The Bon Landscape of Dolpo

Pilgrimages, Monasteries, Biographies and the Emergence of Bon

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Buch | Hardcover
2012
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-0690-4 (ISBN)

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The Bon Landscape of Dolpo - Marietta Kind
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The reader is taken on a journey to Dolpo, one of Nepal's remotest Tibetan enclaves with a large community that follow the Bon religion. The present ethnography regards the landscape of Dolpo as the temporary result of an ongoing cumulative cultural process that emerges from the interaction of the natural environment and the communities that inhabit it and endow it with meaning. Pilgrimage provides the key to structuring the book, which is based on anthropological research and the study of the textual legacy. Along the extensive and richly illustrated Bon pilgrimages through Dolpo, the various strands of the written and the oral, the local and the general, the past and present are unrolled step by step and woven into a pattern that provides a first insight into the partial shift from a landscape inhabited by territorial deities to a Bon landscape. In addition, it presents an overview of the main protagonists who discovered the sacred sites, opened pilgrimages, founded monasteries and disseminated the crucial Bon teachings. A number of well-known Tibetan figures emerge among these players thanks to translations of biographies that have survived in rare and unpublished manuscripts. This book sheds light on how Bon religion emerged in Dolpo and has remained alive.

The anthropologist Marietta Kind gained her PhD at the Universities of Zurich and Oxford. She has worked as a lecturer and research fellow at the Ethnographic Museum of Zurich University. With her Tapriza NGO she supports a school in Dolpo and the cultural heritage of this region. Her latest research project at Bern University is concerned with second generation Tibetans in Switzerland and their relation to Buddhism.

Contents: Landscape, mountain cult, conversion and pilgrimage - A Sketch of the religious and Historical Context - Bon, Zhangzhung, Tibet, Nepal and Dolpo - Opening Sacred Grounds - Bon Pilgrimages in Dolpo - Transformational Processes in the Bon pilgrimages - The main protagonists and the crucial teachings in the propagation of Bon in Dolpo.

«Das Buch gibt einen lebendigen Einblick in das Leben der Menschen von Dolpo. Wer sich für Tibet und seine Geschichte interessiert, wird hier viel interessante Information finden, die sonst kaum zugänglich sind (sic).» (Peter Eisenegger, tibetfocus 117, 2012)
«The work is extensively and well illustrated; indeed, the production values are high, and the text is enlivened by the author's scholarly but vivid accounts of pilgrimages and local individuals drawn from her own fieldwork. Descriptions of temples, landscape, and suchlike are extremely well presented. There are seperate maps of Dolpo and the wider region included, along with various glossaries of people, places, Tibetan, and local terms. Any serious library in the field should include this work, and it should be of interest to students and scholars in related areas.» (Alex McKay, Asian Ethnology 72, 2013/1)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.7.2012
Reihe/Serie Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie centrale ; 4
Verlagsort Lausanne
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 1300 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Christentum
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte Angelika • Asiengesellschaft • Biographies • Bronkhorst • Buddhismus • Dolpo • Emergence • Furger • Johannes • Karénina • Kind • Kollmar • Kulturanthropologie • Landscape • Malinar • Marietta • Monasteries • Nord- und Innerasien • Paulenz • Pilgrimages • Religionsethnologie • Schweizerische • Südostasien • Tibetologie
ISBN-10 3-0343-0690-3 / 3034306903
ISBN-13 978-3-0343-0690-4 / 9783034306904
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