Feeling the Way to Revelation: Patterns of Doubt and Persuasion in Tibetan Buddhist Auto/biographical Treasure Narratives

Abstract In the Tibetan Buddhist Treasure (gter ma) tradition, communities cohere around the marking of certain visions as offering insight into the proper method of ritual practices, the veracity of reincarnation claims, decisions about institutional structures, assertions of lineage relationships,...

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Main Author: Townsend, Dominique (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Numen
Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 513-539
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lamaism / Terma / Vision / Ritual / Emotion / Religious community / Religious identity
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Aesthetics
B Emotion
B Tibet
B Doubt
B visionary
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