Joshua Esler

Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese

Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the changing role of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It analyzes how Tibetan Buddhism is both adapting to contemporary Chinese society and reorienting the lives of Han practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781498584661
• ISBN-10: 1498584667
• Artikelnr.: 62479041

Autorenporträt

By Joshua Esler

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tibetan Buddhism as a Worldview
Chapter One: The State, Popular Imagination, and Traditional Chinese
Cosmology
Chapter Two: Superscribing New Meaning on Guan Gong, the Chinese 'God of
War'
Chapter Three: The Confucian Revival and Tibetan Buddhism
Chapter Four: Pragmatism, Protestantism and Tibetan Buddhism in Hong Kong
Chapter Five: Tibetan Deities and Spirits in a Multilayered Tibetan
Landscape
Chapter Six: Chinese Ghosts and Tibetan Buddhism
Conclusion: Tibetan Buddhism Engaging Contemporary China: Continuity,
Change, and Authenticity