Tibetan Magic : Past and Present Hardback
Edited by Cameron (Independent scholar, USA) Bailey, Aleksandra (University of Florence, Italy) Wenta
Hardback
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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 Buddhisttraditions and Western Buddhist scholarship, which focuses primarily on meditation andphilosophy. 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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:266 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781350354944
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:266 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350354944