Karma Ura

Bhutan (eBook, ePUB)

The Unremembered Nation (Vol.2, Art and Ideals)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. This volume and its prequel provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. It shows the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the 1960s. Volume 2 covers the monumental architecture of dzongs (castles) and administration of the country, authority and power, cosmological concepts and beliefs, religions and rites, visualization and meditation, visual arts, and folk drama that affected the daily life of the people. Some chapters also dwell on monastic life and monkhood, and Guru Rinpoche's imprints on the land and its people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192694959
• Artikelnr.: 66016926

Autorenporträt

Karma Ura is the president of the Centre for Bhutan Studies (CBS) and GNH Research. He completed his MA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, an M.Phil. in Economics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. in Nagoya University, Japan. An eminent scholar, he has held many international roles, in the Global Council of World Happiness, Earth Justice Working Group, and International Buddhist Federation.

Inhaltsangabe

Vol.1 (Community and Livelihood)
1: Introduction
2: Birth of Mothers' Houses
3: Family and Village
4: Perfect Cows and Skilled Herders
5: Sounds and Colours of the Land
6: Backpack Traders and Caravans
Vol.2 (Art and Ideals)
1: Introduction
2: Castles of Eternity
3: Visual Arts and Visualisations
4: Tapestry of Beliefs and Faith
5: The Governance of Nation
6: Apex of Power
7: Troops of Fierce Deities
8: Monks and Monasteries
9: The Timeless Guru