Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary
The Life of a Modern Bönpo Saint
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 January 2019
- ISBN 9780199362349
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 157x236x22 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book examines the religious biography of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), the most significant modern figure representing the Tibetan Bön religion, a vital minority tradition underrepresented in Tibetan studies. Utilizing close readings of two versions of Shardza's life-story, along with oral history collected in Bön communities, the book presents and interprets the biographical image of this major figure, and includes an English translation of his life-story.
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Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary examines the religious biography of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), the most significant modern figure representing the Tibetan Bön religion-a vital minority tradition that is underrepresented in Tibetan studies. The work is based on fieldwork conducted in eastern Tibet and in the Bön exile community in India, where traditional Tibetan scholars collaborated closely on the project. Utilizing close readings of two versions of Shardza's life-story, along with oral history collected in Bön communities, this book presents and interprets the biographical image of this major figure, culminating with an English translation of his life story.
William M. Gorvine argues that the disciple-biographer's literary portrait not only enacts and shapes religious ideals to foster faith among its readership, but also attempts to quell tensions that had developed among his original audience. Among the Bön community today, Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen has come to be unequivocally revered for an impressive textual legacy and a saintly death. During his lifetime, however, he faced prominent critics within his own lineage who went so far as to issue polemical attacks against him. As Gorvine shows, the biographical texts that inform us about Shardza's life are best understood when read on multiple registers, with attention given to the ways in which the religious ideals on display reflect the broader literary, cultural, and historical contexts within which they were envisioned and articulated.
Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary is a much-needed contribution to the study of Himalayan religions, and scholars of Buddhism would be wise to reflect on its contents as a model for investigating the relationship between Buddhism and its local and regional folk practices.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Technical Note
Introduction
Part I. Approaching the Life
1. Situating Bön and the Life of Shardza
2. Birth, Discipleship and the Precepts
3. Teachers, Practice, and Travel
4. Teaching, Writing, Travel, and Dialogue
5. Measures, Miracles, and Representations
Part II. Reading the Life
1. Preface: A Brief History of the Author
2. The Pleasure Garden of Wish-Fulfilling Trees: The Life of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen
Tibetan Spellings
Glossary
Bibliography
