TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldstein,Melvyn C.
AU  - Kapstein,Matthew
TI  - Buddhism in contemporary Tibet: religious revival and cultural identity 
SN  - 9780520920057
AV  - BQ7590 .B84 1998eb
U1  - 294.3/923/0951509048 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - China
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Tibetan
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - Tibetischer Buddhismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Lama�isme
KW  - gtt
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Philosophy & Religion
KW  - Bouddhisme tib�etain
KW  - 20e si�ecle
KW  - ram
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / General
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
KW  - R�egion autonome du Tibet (Chine)
KW  - Tibet (Chine)
KW  - Vie religieuse
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index; The revival of monastic life in Drepung monastery -- Re-membering the dismembered body of Tibet : contemporary Tibetan visionary movements in the People's Republic of China -- A pilgrimage of rebirth reborn : the 1992 celebration of the Drigung Powa Chenmo -- Ritual, ethnicity, and generational identity -- Concluding reflections
N2  - "Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of that revival is the focus of this book. Four leading specialists in Tibetan anthropology and religion conducted case studies in the Tibet autonomous region and among the Tibetans of Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. There they observed the revival of the Buddhist heritage in monastic communities and among laypersons at popular pilgrimages and festivals. Demonstrating how that revival must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a complex process of social, political, and economic adaptation. Buddhism has long been the main source of Tibetans' pride in their culture and country. These essays reveal the vibrancy of that ancient religion in contemporary Tibet and also the problems that religion and Tibetan culture in general are facing in a radically altered world."--Back cover
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973182
ER  -