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| Selections from the life of a Tibetan Buddhist polymath: Chankya Rolpai Dorje (Lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje), 1717–1786 | ||
| 作者 | Illich, Marina (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| 卷期 | v.67 n.2 Section A |
| 出版日期 | 2006 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Columbia University |
| 系所名稱 | Department of Religion |
| 指導教授 | Thurman, Robert |
| 畢業年度 | 2006 |
| 附註項 | 1. 615p 2. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 586-615) |
| 關鍵詞 | Qing Dynasty; China; Tibetan Buddhist; Chankya Rolpai Dorje; Buddhism |
| 摘要 | This dissertation examines the life of Chankya Rolpai Dorje (Lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje), an 18th-century Tibetan Buddhist lama who played a pivotal historical role in mid-Qing dynasty Tibetan-Manchu relations. A Tibetanized Mongol from the Kokonor region of today's northwest China, Chankya was brought to Beijing by imperial request as a young boy and groomed to serve in the Manchu court bureaucracy. Under Emperor Yongzheng's supervision, he underwent complete monastic training in the classical curriculum of Tibetan Buddhist arts and sciences while he simultaneously mastered Mongolian, Manchu and Chinese. During his youth at the court, he became close friends with his classmate the prince Hongli, who later took the throne as the illustrious Qianlong Emperor. At the height of his rule, the Qianlong Emperor installed Chankya as the senior-most lama at his court and appointed him to serve as his Tantric Buddhist guru. This little-known facet of the Qianlong Emperor's life positioned the emperor in a radically unorthodox and anti-Confucian position vis-à-vis his subject. As Tantric disciple, Qianlong was required to relinquish his authority over spiritual affairs to Chankya, observe a strict regimen of Buddhist vows and daily meditation practice and pay regular obeisance to his guru in the form of highly formalized ritual protocol. Ruler of the largest "Chinese" empire in history and Son of Heaven, subordinate to none but the ancestors and Heaven itself, Qianlong lived another life literally prostrate at the feet of his Tibetanized Mongol guru. While historians generally acknowledge that the Manchu Qing emperors cultivated ties with Tibetan Buddhist lamas, they rarely recognize the depth, sophistication and intricacy of these relations. Scholarship on the subject continues to reductively claim that the Manchus patronized Tibetan Buddhism solely to gain the submission of Buddhist Mongols and thus eliminate the perennial threat that a potentially united Mongol military front posed to Manchu hegemony. Though largely unexamined, Tibetan sources offer a different perspective. The contending narratives they contain seriously challenge both older, sinocentric characterizations of Qing emperors as fully Sinicized monarchs as well as the reductive tendency of some New Qing Studies scholars to narrowly conceptualize Tibetan influences at the Qing court as purely "religious." This dissertation attempts to redress some of these scholastic oversights by examining selections of the life of Chankya Rolpai Dorje, the prodigious student of the Seventh Dalai Lama---Kalsang Gyatso---and Tantric guru to the Emperor Qianlong, as recorded in his primary Tibetan biography. The dissertation opens with a critique of how western academic constructions of Qing history have radically marginalized and often mischaracterized the influence of Tibetan Buddhism on Qing court culture and imperial policy. It then traces a genealogy of the Tibetan Buddhist system of "lama-patron" joint-administration, the seminal institution structuring Qing-Tibetan relations. Turning to the biography itself, the study then goes on to spotlight key events of Chankya's life, including his recognition and life as a child prodigy and his career as Tibetan Buddhist scholar, imperial preceptor and Tantric adept. It is my hope that in providing a window onto how one of the most illustrious Tibetan Buddhists at the Manchu court conceptualized the world around him, this study will be of use to scholars in rethinking the history of Qing-Tibetan relations. |
| ISBN | 9780542524219 |
| 點閱次數 | 1527 |
| 建檔日期 | 2007.09.16 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.03.29 |
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