Long Lives and Untimely Deaths: Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices Among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, IndiaBRILL, 23 déc. 2011 - 362 pages Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain life-forces in various areas of knowledge. These life-forces follow daily, monthly, and annual cycles. Divinations and astrological calculations are widely but varyingly used by Tibetans to assess the strength of life-forces and forecast difficult periods in their lives. Loss, exhaustion, or periodic weaknesses of life-forces are treated medically or through Tibetan Buddhist practices and rituals. In all these events, temporality and agency are deeply interlinked in the ways in which Tibetans enhance their vitality, prolong their life-spans, and avoid untimely deaths. |
Table des matières
Part Two The Field Site and Tibetan Areas of Knowledge | 43 |
Part Three The Lifespan and Lifeforces in Tibetan Medical Contexts | 117 |
Part Four The Lifespan in Astrological and Divinatory Contexts | 167 |
Part Five Tibetan Buddhist Longlife Empowerments | 227 |
Chapter Eleven Summary and Conclusions | 286 |
Appendices | 297 |
Glossary of Recurrent Tibetan Terms Except Proper Names | 317 |
List of Tibetan Proper Names | 331 |
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almanac Amchi Jamyang amchis Amitāyus astrological auspicious bar chad Bhutia bla gnas bla rtsa blessing body breath brtan byin rlabs calculations chapter clinical context Darjeeling Hills dbang thang deity Dharamsala dharma divination divinatory Dudjom Dudjom Rinpoche example fieldwork five factors Ghum Gompa gtor ideas Indian interpretation Kalimpong Kalimpong 2005 karma Lama Kunzang Lhasa life-essence life-forces life-span linked lives long-life empowerments longevity practices longevity rituals loss of bla mantras mdangs mchog medicine Momola monastery monks moxibustion Nepali Nyingma Palden Lhamo pebble Pema Dorje plate practices of temporalisation practitioners prayers pulse diagnosis recited rgya Rgyud bzhi Rinpoche rlung rta rtsis Sakya Sangye Gyatso Sanskrit schools Sherab Sikkim sman srog tantric temporal frameworks textual three nyes Tibet Tibetan Buddhist Tibetan calendar Tibetan language Tibetan refugees Tibetan Terms tion translated tshe dbang tshe lhag tshe sgrub untimely death Vajrayāna various visualisation vital White Tārā Wylie Transliteration