Buddhist Ritual as “Connectionwork”: Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Belonging
Abstract In September 2016, the Himalayan Buddhist festival Naropa 2016 took place in the Northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. This article analyzes the spectacular aesthetics of the Naro Gyen Druk ritual, the focus of Naropa 2016. Drawing on ethnographic documentation of this ritual, I cons...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2021
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Numen
Année: 2021, Volume: 68, Numéro: 5/6, Pages: 488-512 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Ladakh
/ Naḍapāda 956-1040
/ Fête religieuse
/ Geschichte 2016
/ Bouddhisme tibétain
/ Rite
/ Identité religieuse
/ Sentiment
/ Relation
/ Pad-ma-dbang-chen 1963-
/ Drukpa Kagyu
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse BL Bouddhisme KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Himalayan Buddhism
B Rituel B religious belonging B Charisme |
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| Résumé: | Abstract In September 2016, the Himalayan Buddhist festival Naropa 2016 took place in the Northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. This article analyzes the spectacular aesthetics of the Naro Gyen Druk ritual, the focus of Naropa 2016. Drawing on ethnographic documentation of this ritual, I consider the role of ritual aesthetics in provoking affective, emotional, and bodily experiences among participants and their felt connections to the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, the charismatic leader of the Drukpa Kagyü organization. I introduce the term “connectionwork” to emphasize how Buddhist conceptualizations of connections, drelwa (‘brel ba), bring to light how ritual and performances of charisma either work or fail to work in establishing religious belonging among Himalayan and international participants. Connectionwork helps to emphasize not only the work to organize and orchestrate religious rituals with the intention to institute religious belonging, but also the agential role that participants play in charismatic ritual performances. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341637 |