Bon, Buddhism and Democracy
| Author | : Per Kvaerne |
| Publisher | : NIAS Press |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Bon (Tibetan religion) |
| ISBN | : 9788787062251 |
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Buddhism and the Political Process
| Author | : Hiroko Kawanami |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2016-04-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137574003 |
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This study examines the impact of Buddhism on the political process of Asian countries in recent times. The intersection between Buddhism and politics; religious authority and political power is explored through the engagement of Buddhist monks and lay activists in the process of nation-building, development, and implementation of democracy.
The Bon Religion of Tibet
| Author | : Per Kværne |
| Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
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The Bon religion claims to be the original and authentic religion of the Tibetan people, and to have been firmly established in the Land of Snows long before Buddhism was introduced in the seventh century AD. Although its adherents were gradually reduced to a minority, Bon has nevertheless continued to flourish in many areas up to the present day in Tibet, especially in the eastern and north-eastern regions where a reconstruction and renaissance is taking place, as well as within the Bon community in exile in India. The iconography of the Bon religion is presented through a series of thangkas, miniatures and bronzes from public and private collections in the West, as well as from communities within Tibet and in exile. With a few exceptions they are hitherto unpublished and date from the late fourteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The peaceful, tutelary, protector and local deities as well as the Bon siddhas, lamas and dakinis are identified and fully described by means of excerpts from ritual or biographical texts which are translated here for the first time.
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
| Author | : Theresia Hofer |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2018-03-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 029574300X |
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Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet�s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitioners, or amchi, and of Medical Houses in the west-central region of Tsang. Due to difficult research access and the power of state institutions in the writing of history, the perspectives of more marginal amchi have been absent from most accounts of Tibetan medicine. Theresia Hofer breaks new ground both theoretically and ethnographically, in ways that would be impossible in today�s more restrictive political climate that severely limits access for researchers. She illuminates how medical practitioners safeguarded their professional heritage through great adversity and personal hardship.
Buddhism and Politics in Thailand
| Author | : Arnaud Dubus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9786167571324 |
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The Crowd
| Author | : Gustave Le Bon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 1897 |
| Genre | : Crowds |
| ISBN | : |
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The Agendas of Tibetan Refugees
| Author | : Thomas Kauffmann |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2015-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1782382836 |
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Since the arrival of the first Tibetans in exile in 1959, a vast and continuous wave of international – especially Western – support has permitted these refugees to survive and even to flourish in their temporary places of residence. Today, these Tibetan refugees continue to attract assistance from Western governments, organizations and individuals, while other refugee populations are largely forgotten in the international agenda. This book shows and discusses how Tibetan refugees continue to attract resources, due, notably, to the dissemination of their political and religious agendas, as well as how a movement of Western supporters, born in very different conditions, guaranteed a unique relationship with these refugees.
Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India
| Author | : Amrita Basu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2015-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107089638 |
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This study examines the political sources of violence against religious minorities in India. Focusing on Hindu organizations that have asserted dominance over religious minorities, particularly since the late 1980s, Amrita Basu questions the common assumption that Hindu-Muslim violence is inevitable.
Power and Humility
| Author | : John Keane |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2018-08-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108635962 |
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Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy. The book shows why the current literature on democracy is failing to make sense of many intellectual puzzles and new political trends. It probes a wide range of themes, from the growth of cross-border institutions and capitalist market failures to the greening of democracy, the dignity of children and the anti-democratic effects of everyday fear, violence and bigotry. Keane develops the idea of 'monitory democracy' to show why periodic free and fair elections are losing their democratic centrality; and why the ongoing struggles by citizens and their representatives, in a multiplicity of global settings, to humble the high and mighty and deal with the dangers of arbitrary power, force us to rethink what we mean by democracy and why it remains a universal ideal.
Tibetan Democracy
| Author | : Trine Brox |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2016-06-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1786730464 |
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How do you govern 130,000 people from exile? Tibet - and the struggles of diaspora Tibetans - are elements of an ongoing and highly debated issue. The Dalai Lama's democratisation process during his time in India from 1959-2011, and the subsequent election of Lobsang Sangay as prime minister-in-exile, marked to the Tibetan people the move away from a seemingly feudal societal structure and traditional theocratic governance. Central to these Tibetan democracy aspirations is the 'freedom struggle' in which Tibetans dream of an ideal politics which includes both Tibetans residing in Tibet and those in exile, with the ultimate goal of returning to a self-ruled Tibet. However, some have questioned whether the fight for democracy has helped or hindered a united and free Tibet. To elucidate this complex debate Trine Brox has undertaken extensive fieldwork investigating how democracy is viewed and practised amongst Tibetans in exile. In so doing, she explores how the Tibetans living in India imagine, organise and negotiate governance that is modern and democratic, but uniquely Tibetan. This is an important book for those with an interest in Tibet, diaspora communities and democracy.
