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Lineages of the literary : Tibetan Buddhist polymaths of socialist China
- Title
- Lineages of the literary : Tibetan Buddhist polymaths of socialist China / Nicole Willock.
- Author
- Willock, Nicole D.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- xv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People's Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Renowned as the "Three Polymaths," Tséten Zhabdrung (1910-1985), Mugé Samten (1914-1993), and Dungkar Lozang Trinlé (1927-1997) earned this symbolic title for their efforts to keep the lamp of the Dharma lit even in the darkest hour of Tibetan history. Lineages of the Literary reveals how the Three Polymaths negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era. Nicole Willock explores their contributions to reviving Tibetan Buddhism, expanding Tibetan literary arts, and pioneering Tibetan studies as an academic discipline. Her sophisticated reading of Tibetan-language sources vivifies the capacious literary world of the Three Polymaths, including autobiography, Buddhist philosophy, poetic theory, and historiography. Whereas prevailing state-centric accounts offer Tibetan religious figures in China only two roles, collaborator or resistance fighter, Willock shows how the Three Polymaths offer an alternative model of agency. She illuminates how they by turns safeguarded, taught, and celebrated Tibetan Buddhist knowledge, practices, and institutions after their near destruction during the Cultural Revolution. An interdisciplinary work spanning religious studies, history, literary studies, and social theory, Lineages of the Literary offers new insight into the categories of religion and the secular, the role of Tibetan Buddhist leaders in modern China, and the contested ground of Tibet"--
- Subject
- Tshe-tan Zhabs-drung, 1910 or 1911-1986
- Bsam-gtan, Dmu-dge
- Blo-bzang-ʼphrin-las, Dung-dkar, 1927-1997
- Since 1900
- Buddhism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History > 20th century
- Buddhism
- Civilization
- Intellectual life
- Tibet Region > Civilization
- China > Intellectual life > 1949-
- China
- China > Tibet Autonomous Region
- China > Tibet Region
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Three Polymaths : past and present -- "Telling what happened" : Buddhist recollections of the 1950s -- Mellifluous words on the human condition : the Maoist years -- Dungkar Rinpoché on the contested ground of Tibetan history -- Diverging lineages.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6503
- ISBN
- 9780231197069
- 0231197063
- 9780231197076
- 0231197071
- LCCN
- 2020038974
- OCLC
- 1156346092
- Author
- Willock, Nicole D., author.
- Title
- Lineages of the literary : Tibetan Buddhist polymaths of socialist China / Nicole Willock.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1900
- Other Form:
- Online version: Willock, Nicole D. Lineages of the literary New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 9780231551960 (DLC) 2020038975
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6503