RT Book
T1 World of worldly gods: the persistence and transformation of shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan
T2 Religion, Culture, and History
A1 Tashi, Kelzang T.
LA English
PP New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1819251918
AB "In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested, in the presence of the invalidating force-Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, he investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to practice and engage with Bon that has survived over a millennium of impatience from a dominant Buddhist religious structure. Against the backdrop of long-standing debates around practices unsystematically identified as 'Bon', and how they relate to what anthropologists refer to as syncretism, he reframes the often stale and scholastic debates by providing the most clear and succinct statement on how these practices should be conceived in the region. Kelzang T. Tashi argues that the reasons for the tenacity of Bon practices and beliefs amid censures by the Buddhists are manifold and complex. While a significant reason for the persistence of Bon is the recency of formal Buddhist institutions in Goleng, he demonstrates that Bon beliefs are so deeply embedded in village social life that some Buddhists paradoxically feel it necessary to reach a rather awkward accommodation with the Bon priests. Through an analysis of the relationship between Shamanistic Bon and Buddhism, and the contemporary dynamics of Bhutanese society, Kelzang T. Tashi tackles the longstanding concern of anthropology: cultural persistence and change, discusses the mutual accommodation and syncretism between Buddhism and Bon, and offers fresh perspectives on the central distinguishing features of Great and Little Traditions"--
NO Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Australian National University, 2020, under the title: Contested past, challenging future : an ethnography of pre-Buddhist Bon religious practices in central Bhutan
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BQ7964.3.B47
SN 978-0-19-766986-0
SN 978-0-19-766989-1
K1 Bon (Tibetan religion) : Zhemgang (District)
K1 Shamanism : Zhemgang (District)
K1 Buddhism : Zhemgang (District)
K1 Religion and culture : Bhutan : Zhemgang (District)
K1 Social Change : Bhutan : Zhemgang (District)
K1 ART / Asian
K1 Asian History
K1 Asiatische Geschichte
K1 Buddhism
K1 Buddhismus
K1 Oriental religions
K1 Ostasiatische Religionen
K1 RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
K1 RELIGION / Eastern
K1 Zhemgang (Bhutan : District) : Religious life and customs
K1 Hochschulschrift