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Article: VAJRA BROTHER, VAJRA SISTER: RENUNCIATION, INDIVIDUALISM AND THE HOUSEHOLD IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONASTICISM.
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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This article challenges two connected notions in the study of Tibetan Buddhism: that Buddhist monasticism is characterized by a pronounced move towards individualism, systematically detaching monks from relational social life; and that Tibetan Buddhist doctrines of karma represent an alternative mode of identity to those constructed within household life. By comparing the ritual practices and inheritance patterns associated with household groups in Ladakh with tantric ritual forms in local Buddhist (Gelukpa) monasteries, it is argued that they demonstrate pronounced structural similarities, centred on the shared symbolic construct of the household/temple as the source of ...
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