The words and world of Ge bcags Nunnery: tantric meditation in context
"Ge bcags (Gebchak) dgon pa, founded in 1892 in Nang chen, Khams (Qinghai Province, PRC), is still active today with around 250 nuns practising intensive Vajrayāna rituals, yogas and meditation. The nuns' knowledge goal is embodied, nonconceptual awareness, yet they spend many hours daily...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
2024
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| In: |
Brill's Tibetan studies library (volume 56)
Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Brill's Tibetan studies library
volume 56 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sikang
/ Vajrayāna
/ Red Hat Sect
/ Bhikkuni
/ Sadhana
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| Further subjects: | B
Tantric Buddhism
B Buddhist Nuns Religious life B Spiritual Life Rnying-ma-pa (Sect) B Ge-bcags-dgon-pa (Nanzheng Xian, China) |
| Summary: | "Ge bcags (Gebchak) dgon pa, founded in 1892 in Nang chen, Khams (Qinghai Province, PRC), is still active today with around 250 nuns practising intensive Vajrayāna rituals, yogas and meditation. The nuns' knowledge goal is embodied, nonconceptual awareness, yet they spend many hours daily reading texts as part of their training. By investigating the whole context of the nuns' lifeworld and ways of learning, this ethnography questions the role of reading in Ge bcags' tacit knowledge tradition. At a time when Tibetan learning practices are quickly modernising, this book demonstrates a Buddhist tradition whose textual knowledge is not exactly literal, but cultivated through continuous, whole person learning"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 9004687270 |