Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-Between Bodies (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)
By Tanya Zivkovic.
Description
Contextualising the seemingly esoteric and exotic aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture within the everyday, embodied and sensual sphere of religious praxis, this book centres on the social and religious lives of deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas. It explores how posterior forms – corpses, relics, reincarnations and hagiographical representations – extend a lama’s trajectory of lives and manipulate biological imperatives of birth and death. The book looks closely at previously unexamined figures whose history is relevant to a better understanding of how Tibetan culture naviga...
ISBN(s)
0415830672, 9780415830676
