Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia� This vast area has experienced significant changes following political and socio-cultural upheavals: the Chinese occupation of Tibet since the 1950s; the opening of Nepal to the world in 1951 and the influx of large numbers of Tibetan refugees into its territory; the end of the communist era and the transition to a market economy in Mongolia, and more generally the confrontation with modernity and globalisation. Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World examines the changes rituals have undergone and offers the reader the result of recent research based on both fieldwork and textual studies by researchers who have worked in these countries. Contributors include Hildegard Diemberger, Fabienne Jagou, Thierry Dodin, Fernanda Pirie, Nicola Schneider, Mireille Helffer, Alexander von Rospatt, Marie-Dominique Even, Robert Barnett, Katia Buffetrille.
Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World, Katia Buffetrille (Editor), Brill, Hardcover, 386 pp, $184.00
Katia Buffetrille, Ph.D. (1996), Nanterre University, is fellow researcher at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes. She has published and edited several books and written many articles on Tibet including (with A.M. Blondeau) Authenticating Tibet. Answers to 100 China questions (University of California Press, 2008).
Chapter | Page | | | Acknowledgements | vii | | | Introduction by Katia Buffetrille | 1 | | | Holy Books as Ritual Objects and Vessels of Teachings in the Era of the 'Further Spread of the Doctrine' (Bstan pa yang dar) by Hildegard Diemberger | 9 | | | The Use of the Ritual Drawing of Lots for the Selection of the 11<sup>th</sup> Panchen Lama by Fabienne Jagou | 43 | | | Transformed Rituals? Some Reflections on the Paradigm of the Transformation of Rituals in the Tibetan Context by Thierry Dodin | 69 | | | Legal dramas on the Amdo Grasslands: Abolition, Transformation or Survival? by Fernanda Pirie | 83 | | | The Ordination of Dge slong ma: a Challenge to Ritual Prescriptions? by Nicola Schneider | 109 | | | Preservation and Transformations of Liturgical Traditions in Exile: the Case of Zhe chen Monastery in Bodnath (Nepal) by Mireille Helffer | 137 | | | Low Tricks and High Stakes Surrounding a Holy Place in Eastern Nepal: the Halesi-Maratika Caves by Katia Buffetrille | 163 | | | Past Continuity and Recent Changes in the Ritual Practice of Newar Buddhism: Reflections on the Impact of Tibetan Buddhism and the Advent of Modernity by Alexander von Rospatt | 209 | | | Ritual Efficacy or Spiritual Quest? Buddhism and Modernity in Post-Communist Mongolia by Marie-Dominique Even | 241 | | | Notes on Contemporary Ransom Rituals in Lhasa by Robert Barnett | 273 | | | Notes on Contributors | 375 | | | Index | 379 | | | | |
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