Buddhist Ritual as “Connectionwork”: Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Belonging
Abstract In September 2016, the Himalayan Buddhist festival Naropa 2016 took place in the Northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. This article analyzes the spectacular aesthetics of the Naro Gyen Druk ritual, the focus of Naropa 2016. Drawing on ethnographic documentation of this ritual, I cons...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 488-512 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ladakh
/ Naḍapāda 956-1040
/ Religious festival
/ Geschichte 2016
/ Lamaism
/ Ritual
/ Religious identity
/ Emotion
/ Relationship
/ Pad-ma-dbang-chen 1963-
/ Drukpa Kagyü
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Charisma
B Himalayan Buddhism B religious belonging B Ritual |
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