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Life of the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje

Transmitting the Dharma in Exile

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvMeng Wang,Gray Tuttle

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The Sixteenth Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, was the first Tibetan Buddhist leader to make extensive teaching tours to the West. His three tours to Europe and North America from 1974 to 1980 led to the global expansion of Tibetan Buddhist schools. This book presents the most in-depth analysis of the Karmapa’s contribution to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. It is the first study to combine Tibetan life-writing and biographical materials in English with a thorough examination of the transformation of Tibetan Buddhism in the modern era of globalization. Drawing on a wide range of data from written accounts, collections of photographs, recordings of interviews, and documentaries, the author discusses the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency. The study shows that the Karmapa’s transmission strategies emphasized continuity with tradition with some openness for adaptation. His traditionalist approach and his success on the global scale challenge the popular assumption that the transmission of Buddhism is primarily a matter of Westernization, which, in turn, calls for a broader view that recognizes its complex and dynamic nature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-02-05
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt512 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Modern Tibetan Culture
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666913477

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AcknowledgmentsPart I: A Cross-Cultural ApproachChapter 1: The Tibetan PerspectiveChapter 2: Western ContextPart II: Reception: Perceiving the KarmapaChapter 3: Faithful TranslationChapter 4: The Emergence of New NarrativesPart III: Transmission (I): PreservationChapter 5: Politics and PatronageChapter 6: Preservation InitiativePart IV: Transmission (II): ExpansionChapter 7: Preparing the GroundChapter 8: Strategies on TourConclusionAppendix A: Rangjung Rigpe Dorje’s rangnam: A Brief AutobiographyAppendix B: Rangjung Rigpe Dorje’s namthar Composed by Thrangu Rinpoche: The Life Story of the Victorious One, the Great Sixteenth [Karmapa]BibliographyAbout the Author

The sixteenth in the lineage of Karmapas of Tibet—also known as the ‘Black Hat Lamas’— was one of the major spiritual figureheads in the twentieth century. From the cataclysm of being a refugee to India in 1959 to the time of his death, in 1981, he had instigated and enabled the spread of Tibetan Buddhism from the highlands of remote Tibet to be pervasive in Western culture. He was an inspiration to many people worldwide. Meng Wang traces and analyses this journey, in terms of the work done firstly in preservation of the precious Vajrayana tradition and then the strategy in spreading Buddhist teaching and practice to the West. The Life of the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje is a valuable and timely contribution to our understanding of the phenomenal spread of Tibetan Buddhism to the West in the late twentieth century.