State, Society, and Tibetan Buddhism in Contemporary China

Dr. Gerald Roche@GJosephRoche

g.roche@unimelb.edu.au

ANTH30003—Society, Politics, and the Sacred

TibetNot Just Tibetans, Not Just Buddhists

Tibetan BuddhismGeoffrey Samuel

Bodhi orientation Pragmatic orientationKarma orientation

Tibetan BuddhismGeoffrey Samuel

Mixed orientations

Tibetan BuddhismGeoffrey Samuel

Shamanic BuddhismClerical Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

Clerical and Shamanic

Tibetan BuddhismRobert Ekvall – ‘Religious Work’

• Faith: dadpa དད་པ།• Verbalization: cheendon ཆོ ས་འདོ ན།• Offerings: mchodpa མཆོ ད་པ།• Salutations: shyag ཕྱག• Circumambulation: korwa བསྐོ ར་བ།• Divination: mo མོ །

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References • Caple, Jane. 2015. Faith, Generosity, Knowledge and the Buddhist Gift: Moral

Discourses on Chinese Patronage of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries. Religion Compass 9(11):462-482.

• Gaerrang (Kabzung). 2015. Development as Entangled Knot: The Case of the Slaughter Renunciation Movement in Tibet, China. Journal of Asian Studies. 74(4):927-952.

• Gayley, Holly. 2016. Controversy over Buddhist Ethical Reform: A Secular Critique of Clerical Authority in the Tibetan Blogosphere. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 36(1): 22-43.

• Gayley, Holly. 2013. Reimagining Buddhist Ethics on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Buddhist Ethics. 20:246-286.

• Power, John. 2016. The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Roche, Gerald and Sa mtsho skyid. Purity and Fortune in Phug sde Village Rituals. https://www.academia.edu/1772774/Purity_and_Fortune_in_Phug_sde_Tibetan_Village_Rituals

• Samuel, Geoffrey. 2012. Introducing Tibetan Buddhism. London: Routledge. • Yeh, Emily. 2013. Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions: Nationalism, Cultural Politics,

and Spectacular Decommodification in Tibet. Journal of Asian Studies 72(2):319-344.

Images• Tibetan Muslims: anonymous, WeChat• Bodhi orientation; by Achmad Munasit :

http://idealist4ever.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/0ru.jpg• Karma orientation; anonymous:

http://www.exploretibet.com/blog/tibet-kaleidoscope-of-prayer-wheels/• Pragmatic orientation; by me:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldroche/6971663719/in/album-72157629558658273/ • Mixed orientation; by me:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldroche/9553885876/in/album-72157635147919607/ • Clerical Buddhism:

http://www.thetibetpost.com/images/stories/June-2016/Serta-Larung-Kham-Tibet.jpg• Shamanic Buddhism – photograph by Lugyal Bum• Clerical and Shamanic: https://au.pinterest.com/pin/156851999499794066/ • Drolma Girl: http://blogs.harvard.edu/genderedtibet/2016/09/03/drolmasheep/;

https://triciakehoe.com/2016/09/04/the-politics-of-animal-release-in-contemporary-tibet-part-one/