World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan
This anthropological study examines the changing relationship between Shamanic Bon and Buddhism through an ethnography of the Goleng village and its neighbours in Zhemgang district in central Bhutan. It is concerned with how Bon practices have persisted in villages despite the systematised oppositio...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Aar Reflection and Theory Stu Religion Series
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bhutan
/ Lamaism
/ Bonpo
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| Further subjects: | B
Bon (Tibetan religion)
B Buddhisms B Electronic books B Thesis |
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| Summary: | This anthropological study examines the changing relationship between Shamanic Bon and Buddhism through an ethnography of the Goleng village and its neighbours in Zhemgang district in central Bhutan. It is concerned with how Bon practices have persisted in villages despite the systematised opposition from Buddhist priests for over one thousand years, and in the last three centuries, from the Buddhist state itself. In investigating this issue, this book presents the ways in which Buddhists seek to control the Bon priests in the villages against the backdrop of local religious history and document the centrality of Bon beliefs in shaping people's everyday lives. Cover -- Series -- World of Worldly Gods -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography -- 1. Introduction -- Multiple Identities -- Bon in Bhutan -- Great and Little Traditions? -- Fieldwork and Methodology -- Structure of the Book -- 2. Goleng Village in Zhemgang District -- Three Ridges of Zhemgang -- Goleng Village -- Social Organization: Dung, Kudrung, Pirpön, and Mamai Lineage Houses -- The Goleng Dung Nobility and Lineage Deities -- The Founding of Buddhist Temples in Goleng -- 3. Soul Loss and Retrieval -- The Fluidity of Five Life Elements -- Common Rituals for Strengthening Declining Life Elements -- The Primordial Bon Ritual for Recapturing the Abducted Soul -- The Local Divinities of the Golengpa Bon Pantheon -- 4. Dealing with Threats to Health and Welfare -- Protective and Healing Rituals -- The Big Gyalpo Beings -- Gyalpo Shul Du: The Ritual of Dispatching the Big Gyalpo to His Palace -- The Small or Familial Gyalpo Spirits -- Autochthonous Demons -- Demonesses and Witches -- Discerning the Sondre Host -- Shartsen: The Eastern Mountain Deities -- Poison Givers: We Are Pure and Clean People -- Treating the Poison Attack -- Gyalpo, Sondre, and Duk Beings as Economy-Generating Spirits -- 5. Controlling the Bon Priests -- Lu'i Bonpo: Becoming a Lu Specialist -- The Ritual of Releasing Trapped Serpent Spirits -- Ways of Becoming a Bonpo Shaman -- The Shamanic Retrieval of Lost Souls -- The Official Bonpos of Zhemgang -- The Official Bonpo of Goleng -- Bonpos in Court -- The Politics of Black Magic Rituals -- 6. The Annual Rup Ritual -- The Significance of Rup to the Dung Nobility -- Rup Rules and Consequences -- Outline of the Rup Rite -- Dham Dham: Rup Divinities, Divinations, and Sealing Rites -- The Rites of the First, Second, and Third Days of Rup -- Rup and Its Future. |
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| ISBN: | 0197669875 |