Tibetan Magic: Past and Present - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350354988 ISBN 13 : 9781350354982

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

This book focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both pre-modern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. It offers a new understanding of the identity and role of magical specialists in both historical and contemporary contexts. Combining the theoretical approaches of anthropology, ethnography, religious and textual studies, the book aims to shed light on experiences, practices and practitioners that have been frequently marginalized by the normative mainstream monastic Buddhist traditions and Western Buddhist scholarship, which focuses primarily on meditation and philosophy. The book explores the intersection between magic/folk practices and Tantra, a complex, socio-religious phenomenon associated not only with the religious and political elites who sponsored it, but also with ‘marginal’ ethnic groups and social milieus, as well as with lay communities at large, who resorted to ritual agents to fulfil their worldly needs.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Cameron Bailey is an independent scholar, USA.

Aleksandra Wenta is Lecturer in Indology and Tibetology at the University of Florence, Italy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350354988
• ISBN 13: 9781350354982
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Éditeur: Bailey Cameron
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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