Rhizomatic Religion and Material Destruction in Kham Tibet: The Case of Yachen Gar
| Autor: | Oostveen, Daan F., LS FAC Vgl vrouwenst. Taal en Beeld, ICON - Gender Studies |
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| Přispěvatelé: | LS FAC Vgl vrouwenst. Taal en Beeld, ICON - Gender Studies |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Han chinese
Buddhist revival History lcsh:BL1-2790 media_common.quotation_subject Tibetan Buddhist Buddhism 050109 social psychology Ancient history 0603 philosophy ethics and religion World religion Chinese religion Nyingmapa lcsh:Religions. Mythology. Rationalism State (polity) Situated 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences China rhizomatic religion media_common 060303 religions & theology Tibetan Buddhism 05 social sciences Religious studies 06 humanities and the arts Yachen gar |
| Zdroj: | Religions, Vol 11, Iss 533, p 533 (2020) Religions, 11(10). MDPI Daan F. Oostveen Religions Volume 11 Issue 10 |
| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Popis: | This article looks at the Tibetan Buddhism revitalization in China in particular, in Kham Tibet, and the way how it was both made possible and obstructed by the Chinese state. As a case, we look at the Yachen Gar monastery in the West of Sichuan. The Yachen Gar monastery became the largest Buddhist university in China in the past decades, but recently, reports of the destruction of large parts of the Buddhist encampment have emerged. This article is based on my observations during my field trip in late 2018, just before this destruction took place. I will use my conceptual framework of rhizomatic religion, which I developed in an earlier article, to show how Yachen Gar, rather than the locus of a &ldquo world religion&rdquo is rather an expression of rhizomatic religion, which is native to the Tibetan highlands in Kham Tibet. This rhizomatic religion could emerge because Yachen is situated both on the edges of Tibet proper, and on the edges of Han Chinese culture, therefore occupying an interstitial space. As has been observed before, Yachen emerges as a process which is the result of the revival of Nyingmapa Tibetan Buddhist culture, as a negotiation between the Tibetan communities and the Chinese state. |
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