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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Tibetan Buddhist embodiment: The religious bodies of a deceased lama |
Author: | Zivkovic, T. |
Citation: | Body and Society, 2010; 16(2):119-142 |
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISSN: | 1357-034X 1460-3632 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Tanya Maria Zivkovic |
Abstract: | When bodies are conceived as permeable fields our physical forms become inseparable from each other and the world from which they manifest. The extension of one’s subjectivity to include cosmological divinities emphasizes the many other bodies which, in some cultural contexts, may overlap and unite with the world. In this article I explore how narratives of a Tibetan Buddhist high-lama’s death and trajectory of lives contain complex formulations of Tibetan theories of embodiment. An ethnographic attendance to biographical writings and teachings at the time of his funerary ceremonies reveals not only how trikaya, or the notion of three bodies, coheres in Tibetan conceptual frameworks, but also how the articulation of these bodies affects new ways to intersubjectively engage with the deceased. |
Keywords: | body Buddhism embodiment intersubjectivity life after death |
Rights: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2010 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1357034X10364770 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x10364770 |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology & Development Studies publications Aurora harvest 5 |
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