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| Those Who Sell the Sacred Sites: The Economic Development of Contemporary Tibet and Popular Religious Spaces | ||
| 作者 | Bessho, Yūsuke (著)=別所裕介 (au.) |
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| 出處題名 | Religious Studies in Japan |
| 卷期 | v.5 |
| 出版日期 | 2020 |
| 頁次 | 3 - 27 |
| 出版者 | Japanese Association for Religious Studies=Nihon Shūkyō Gakkai=日本宗教学会 |
| 出版者網址 | https://jpars.org/ |
| 出版地 | 東京, 日本 [Tokyo, Japan] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Bessho Yūsuke is an Associate Professor at Komazawa University. |
| 關鍵詞 | contemporary Tibet; commercialization; pilgrims; sacred site business; supply and demand |
| 摘要 | This article considers the popular spaces of religious practice that have formed at the sacred sites of Buddhism in contemporary Tibet during the rapid modernization that has taken place under Communist Party rule and will pay special attention to the commercialization of those religious sites. Traditionally, research on sacred sites, undertaken mostly by Western scholars, has been based in an understanding of cosmology as rooted in the Buddhist scriptures and has been most concerned with the kind of ritual correspondence built between the natural environment at sacred sites and pilgrims. The diversification of the religious environment of the sacred site is rarely taken into account. I argue that the religiosity of sacred sites established through the replacement of “natural space” with “pure land space” has been influenced by the diversification of monastic economies and the penetration of outside commercial actors. I will demonstrate that this religiosity is, in fact, the target for those seeking to acquire economic profits on the level of individual sacred sites, which are the actual locations of religious practice. As a result, within the sacred sites of contemporary Tibet, which are exposed to the intense pressures of development, a commercial space based on the relationship of economic supply and demand operates in parallel to a value system based on pure land cosmology. I conclude that it is time to revise the traditional understanding of the preceding literature. |
| 目次 | The Theory and Practice of Sacred Sites 5 Sacred spaces as “places of purity”—the debate over centrality and periphery 5 Development and Sacred Places: Erosion at the Hands of Modernity 9 Direction of this Paper 11 The Object of Examination: The Drakar Dreldzong Pilgrimage 13 A geographical and historical overview 13 Written Tradition and the Actual Location of Connection: The Representative Behaviors of Pilgrims 15 ⑭ demon’s grave 15 ⑯ yangdzong cave 17 ⑰ labtse of the monkey god 17 ⑱ vajra meditation cave 17 From People of Faith to People of Income: Migrant Commercial Actors and Monastic Institutions 19 Considerations: The Relationship Between Supply and Demand at “Sacred Places” 22 In Conclusion: Toward a Future of Sacred Site Research 24 References 25 |
| ISSN | 21869952 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 86 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.09.14 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.09.14 |
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