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| Book Review: "Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet," By Carl S. Yamamoto. | ||
| 作者 | Johan Elverskog |
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| 出處題名 | Religious Studies Review |
| 卷期 | v.39 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2013.09.16 |
| 頁次 | 199 |
| 出版者 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ |
| 出版地 | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | In trying to answer a deceptively simple yet deeply profound question—“how did Tibet become Buddhist?”—Yamamoto zeros in on a pivotal figure of the Tibetan renaissance, Lama Zhang, a figure who in modern scholarship has, surprisingly, usually been written off as a Kurtz‐like madman. However, as this work definitively shows, Lama Zhang—the “proto‐Dalai Lama”—was the one who pulled together various disparate threads—religion and politics, contemplation and violence, literature and governance, and vision and violence—and thereby not only forged a new reality that made whole the fragmented world of postimperial Tibet and thereby brought the Dharma into every aspect of Tibetan life, but also created a template for lived religio‐political action, the “Lord of the Teachings,” that continues to shape the Tibetan Buddhist world. Yet this is not a tale exclusive to the roof of the world. Rather, on account of the author's sophisticated methodological approaches––ranging from incisive discussions on genre creation in relation to textual economies to the lucid employment of Gramsci's theories of the intersection between intellectuals and hegemony in relation to Weber's theory of charisma, as well as the notion of style as used by historians of science—this work should be required reading for everyone interested in how religions develop, spread, and are institutionalized in any time and place. |
| ISSN | 0319485X (P); 17480922 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 171 |
| 建檔日期 | 2014.11.24 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.02 |
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