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Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism (Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions)

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 | #1449835 in Books |  Martin A Mills |  2010-08-13 |  2010-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.99 x6.14l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 426 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An Insightful Account of Buddhism and the State in Ladakh|By JPC|In Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism, Martin Mills addresses one of the fundamental assumptions guiding scholarship on Tibetan Buddhism in Himalayan communities, namely, that the authority is built around the ability to control local spirits and deities (xvii). Mills argues that the situation is exact| |'Martin A. Mills's account takes the reader ... through a tour de force exposition of Tibetan  culture, society, and religion.' - The Journal of Asian Studies

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.
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 bo...

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