Vision and Violence

Yamamoto, Carl S.:
Vision and Violence : Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-century Tibet / by Carl S. Yamamoto. - Leiden : Brill, 2012. - 380 S. - (Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 29)
Hochschulschrift. Teilw. zugl.: Univ. of Virginia, Diss., 2009 unter dem Titel: Vision and violence : Lama Zhang and the dialectics of political authority and religious charisma in twelfth-century Central Tibet (Proquest/UMI)
ISBN 978-90-04-21240-4
EUR 128,00 / US$ 178,00
DDC: 294.3923092
-- Angekündigt für Juni 2012, laut Brill bereits lieferbar --

Beschreibung
This book offers the first in-depth examination of the life and writings of Lama Zhang (1122-1193) [Źaṅ g'Yu-brag-pa brTson-’grus-grags-pa], key figure in the "Tibetan renaissance." Controversial, larger-than-life, already revered as a literary innovator and tantric meditation master, Zhang entered public life in mid-career and forged a new model of rulership and religious community that would set the standard for later religious rulers of Lhasa - most notably the Dalai Lamas. The focus of the model was the tantric hermit who comes down from the mountains and sustains a worldly community through his mastery of space, time, and symbol. The subject is approached through a complex of related issues: lineage and tradition-formation, charisma and hegemony, literary genre, textual economy, and the politics of tantra. [Verlagsinformation]

Autor
CARL S. YAMAMOTO, Ph.D., University of Virginia (2009), is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Towson University. His specialty is medieval Tibetan Buddhism and he is especially interested in textual production, literary genre, and the formation of lineages.

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