Apparitions of the Self

The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary

Janet Gyatso (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

1998
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-01110-3 (ISBN)

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An investigation into what is known in Tibet as "secret autobiography", a literary genre that presents a personal exploration of intimate religious experiences. The text focuses on the secret autobiographies by the Tibetan Buddhist visionary, Jigme Lingpa (1730-1798), whose writings are as much the nature of his own identity, memory and the undecidabilities of autobiographical truth as they are narrations of the actual content of his own experiences. The book examines the questions of why Tibetan Buddhists produced so many autobiographies, and how autobigraphical self-assertion is possible even while Buddhists believe that the self is ultimately an illusion. Also explored are Jigme Lingpa's historical milieu, his revelatory visions of the ancient Tibetan dynasty, and his mediative practices of personal cultivation.

Janet Gyatso is Associate Professor of Religion at Amherst College. She is the editor of In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.3.1998
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	709 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-691-01110-9 / 0691011109
ISBN-13	978-0-691-01110-3 / 9780691011103
Zustand	Neuware