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Preliminary Practices and the Formation of Tibetan Buddhism.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Preliminary Practices and the Formation of Tibetan Buddhism./
Author:	Pickens, John L.
Description:	1 online resource (169 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-04A.
Subject:	South Asian studies. -
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ISBN:	9798380621939

Preliminary Practices and the Formation of Tibetan Buddhism.
Pickens, John L.

Preliminary Practices and the Formation of Tibetan Buddhism. - 1 online resource (169 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Scholars have long recognized the influence of canonical Indian tantras and their attendant sadhanas and vidhis on the formation of new Buddhist traditions in Tibet. The impact of the more popular tantric preliminaries has, however, received far less attention. This dissertation argues that the Tibetan preliminary practices that are so widespread today are historically rooted in the rise of the lay tantric guru. In early medieval India, lay gurus were controversial, so much so that even a well-known collection of devotional practices for relating to such figures-Fifty Verses on the Guru-cautions against bowing to them in public. In eleventh- and twelfth-century Tibet, however, influential lay lamas came to serve as respected heads of monastic institutions. Throughout this period, preliminary practices were an important site for innovation, where Indians and Tibetans alike worked out the changing place of the guru within Buddhism. In Tibet, the popularization of preliminary rites such as guru yoga (bla ma'i rnal 'byor) reflected the elevated status of the lama in the new (gsar ma) Buddhist schools. By the thirteenth century, preliminary practice systems (sngon 'gro) that were almost entirely focused on the lama-lay or monastic-had become a mainstay of Tibetan Buddhism.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380621939Subjects--Topical Terms:

1181839
South Asian studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

GuruIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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