Buddhist Ritual as “Connectionwork”: Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Belonging
Abstract In September 2016, the Himalayan Buddhist festival Naropa 2016 took place in the Northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. This article analyzes the spectacular aesthetics of the Naro Gyen Druk ritual, the focus of Naropa 2016. Drawing on ethnographic documentation of this ritual, I cons...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Brill
2021
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Numen
Год: 2021, Том: 68, Выпуск: 5/6, Страницы: 488-512 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Ladakh
/ Naḍapāda 956-1040
/ Религиозный праздник (мотив)
/ Geschichte 2016
/ Тибетский буддизм
/ Обряд (мотив)
/ Религиозная личность (мотив)
/ Чувство (мотив)
/ Отношения (мотив)
/ Pad-ma-dbang-chen 1963-
/ Друкпа Кагью
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AD Социология религии AG Религиозная жизнь BL Буддизм KBM Азия |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Himalayan Buddhism
B Харизма B religious belonging B Ритуал (мотив) |
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| Итог: | Abstract In September 2016, the Himalayan Buddhist festival Naropa 2016 took place in the Northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. This article analyzes the spectacular aesthetics of the Naro Gyen Druk ritual, the focus of Naropa 2016. Drawing on ethnographic documentation of this ritual, I consider the role of ritual aesthetics in provoking affective, emotional, and bodily experiences among participants and their felt connections to the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, the charismatic leader of the Drukpa Kagyü organization. I introduce the term “connectionwork” to emphasize how Buddhist conceptualizations of connections, drelwa (‘brel ba), bring to light how ritual and performances of charisma either work or fail to work in establishing religious belonging among Himalayan and international participants. Connectionwork helps to emphasize not only the work to organize and orchestrate religious rituals with the intention to institute religious belonging, but also the agential role that participants play in charismatic ritual performances. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341637 |