Authenticating Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Moral Dialogues in Ladakh
Following the partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, the residents of Leh, Ladakh became citizens of the Indian nation-state and residents of Jammu and Kashmir. Partition introduced Buddhists in the region to what Dipesh Chakrabarty refers to a political modernity: “rule by modern institutio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Pages: 171-186 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ladakh
/ Politics
/ The Modern
/ Capitalism
/ Buddhism
/ Religious identity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism KBM Asia ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Authenticity
B Secularity B Morality B Modernity B Reform Buddhism |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| Summary: | Following the partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, the residents of Leh, Ladakh became citizens of the Indian nation-state and residents of Jammu and Kashmir. Partition introduced Buddhists in the region to what Dipesh Chakrabarty refers to a political modernity: “rule by modern institutions of the state, bureaucracy, and capitalist enterprise…”(Chakrabarty 2000, 4). In response to the new prospects, promises, and possibilities of Ladakh’s political modernity, political leaders and religious reform group have attempted to mobilized local Buddhists around a common core sense of Ladakhi Buddhist identity. These dynamic have engendered a variety of debates and dialogues in the public sphere over what it means to be a good Buddhist and what local practices and traditions constitute bad Buddhism. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-6457 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4031013 |