Vision and Violence

by: Carl S. Yamamoto

Vision and Violence
Author: Carl S. Yamamoto

Publisher: Brill

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 07 May 2012

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ISBN: 900421240X ISBN 13: 9789004212404

Vision and Violence by Carl S. Yamamoto

Zhang entered public life in mid-career and forged a new model of rulership and religious community that would set the standard for later religious rulers of Lhasa. This title offers an examination of the life and writings of Lama Zhang (1122-1193), key figure in the Tibetan renaissance. Top page

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This book offers the first in-depth examination of the life and writings of Lama Zhang (1122-1193), key figure in the Tibetan renaissance. "Controversial, larger-than-life, already revered as a literary innovator and tantric meditation master, Zhang entered public life in mid-career and forged a new model of rulership and religious community that would set the standard for later religious rulers of Lhasa - most notably the Dalai Lamas. The focus of the model was the tantric hermit who comes down from the mountains and sustains a worldly community through his mastery of space, time, and symbol. The subject is approached through a complex of related issues: lineage and tradition-formation, charisma and hegemony, literary genre, textual economy, and the politics of tantra". Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Brill

City: Leiden

Pages: 380

More info: weight 769 gr

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 294.3923

Record updated at: 14 April, 2013 time: 20:15


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