Assessing and Adapting Rituals That Reproduce a Collectivity: The Large-Scale Rituals of the Repkong Tantrists in Tibet
Tantrists, non-monastic religious specialists of Tibetan Buddhism, constitute a diffuse, non-centralized form of clergy. In an area like Repkong, where they present a high demographic density, large-scale supra-local annual ritual gatherings of tantrists are virtually synonymous with, and crucial fo...
Subtitles: | Ritual and Critical Reflexivity |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Berghahn
[2018]
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Religion and society
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 160-175 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lamaism
/ Tantrism
/ Ritual
/ Religious change
/ Collective consciousness
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Further subjects: | B
Tibetan Buddhism
B liturgical ritual B tantrists B Conflict B Ritual violence B ritual assessment B ritual aggression B ritual change |
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