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| Keeping the Faith: Divine Protection and Flood Prevention in Modern Buddhist Ladakh | ||
| 作者 | Butcher, Andrea (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology |
| 卷期 | v.17 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2013 |
| 頁次 | 103 - 114 |
| 出版者 | Brill |
| 出版者網址 | https://brill.com/ |
| 出版地 | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Andrea Butcher, Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen. |
| 關鍵詞 | tantric divination; moral universe; chthonic landscape; protection; development |
| 摘要 | In August 2010 the Himalayan Region of Ladakh, Northwest India, experienced severe flashflooding and mudslides, causing widespread death and destruction. The causes cited were climate change, karmic retribution, and the wrath of an agentive sentient landscape. Ladakhis construct, order and maintain the physical and moral universe through religious engagement with this landscape. The Buddhist monastic incumbents—the traditional mediators between the human world and the sentient landscape—explain supernatural retribution as the result of karmic demerit that requires ritual intervention. Social, economic, and material transformations have distorted the proper order, generating a physically and morally unfamiliar landscape. As a result, the mountain deities that act as guardians and protectors of the land below are confused and angry, sending destructive water to show their displeasure. Thus, the locally-contextualized response demonstrates the agency of the mountain gods in establishing a moral universe whereby water can give life and destroy it. |
| 目次 | Taklha Wangchuk’s Prophecy 103 The Flood and Its Causes 106 - The History of Ritual Flood Prevention 106 Authority and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism 108 - Ladakhi Models of Retribution 108 - Classes of Deity 109 Rinpoche and their Oracles in Modern Ladakh 110 Keeping in Faith 112 References 114 |
| ISSN | 13635247 (P); 15685357 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-01702002 |
| 點閱次數 | 198 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.09.19 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.09.19 |
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