Exorcising Ancestors, Conquering Heaven. Himalayan Rituals in Context

Steinmann, Brigitte; Tamang, Mukta Singh; Gyalcen Lama, Thuden

Document type :

Ouvrage (y compris édition critique et traduction)

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/84287

Title :

Exorcising Ancestors, Conquering Heaven. Himalayan Rituals in Context

Author(s) :

Steinmann, Brigitte [Auteur]

Centre d'études sud asiatiques et himalayennes [CESAH]
Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019
Tamang, Mukta Singh [Auteur]
Gyalcen Lama, Thuden [Auteur]

Publisher :

Vajra Publications

Publication place :

Kathmandu Nepal

Publication date :

2020-10

Number of pages :

380 p.

ISBN :

978-9937-624-03-9

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

French abstract :

Dernier ouvrage publié: Un ouvrage de synthèse des recherches ethnologiques au Népal chez les populations bouddhistes Tamang depuis 1980, écrit en collaboration avec Mukta Singh Tamang, professeur à l'Université Tribhuvan ...
Show more >Dernier ouvrage publié: Un ouvrage de synthèse des recherches ethnologiques au Népal chez les populations bouddhistes Tamang depuis 1980, écrit en collaboration avec Mukta Singh Tamang, professeur à l'Université Tribhuvan du Népal, et Thuden Gyalcen Lama, moine rnyingmapa et historien ; Édition critique et traduction des grands textes rituels tibétains, mis dans le contexte ethnographique de l’exécution des rites destinés aux ancêtres. Traduction des corpus d’enseignements moraux destinés aux laïques (Jigten Tamchos). Les concepts religieux nyingmapa autour du rite funéraire (Bardo Thödol). Show less >

English abstract : [en]

This volume is a first attempt at gathering together, translating, describing and analysing an immemorial textual and oral Nepalese Buddhist heritage, doomed to disappear: a most antique form of veneration of major figures ...
Show more >This volume is a first attempt at gathering together, translating, describing and analysing an immemorial textual and oral Nepalese Buddhist heritage, doomed to disappear: a most antique form of veneration of major figures of the Buddhist religion of the Tamangs, based on Tibetan corpus. The analysis is centered around the recreation and final dissolution of both ferocious and pacific images of their gods and ancestors. Multiple dramas and rehearsals featuring the complex rules of the society and all the obstacles encountered by people in their day to day lives, are played theatrically under the guidance of the Head rnyingmapa Lama and/ or the Bard. Books, dramas, recitations, speak of fiercely combatting hordes of demons, enemies of the group, of eliminating a scapegoat and of using for this all the resources of a very high-mountain environment, though far away in fact from where the ceremony in question is performed. People claims loud and clear to have descended from kings who came from the top of an original mountain situated in the centre of the world and touching the sky. Similarly, Funeral rites founded on a conceptualisation of the phases of death, and Teachings for the laity recited by the local bard, suggest that today’s Tamangs’ ancestors may well have been contemporaneous with ancient Mongolian societies, all of them adepts of the old Bon religion and prior to periods when the great literature of the northern Treasure-texts gterma disseminated in Nepal from the seventeenth century onwards, was introduced. This long-term work is the result of a collective effort bringing together the skills of researchers, ethnologists and historians, passionate about the world of these Buddhist populations of Nepal.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Other project(s) or funding source(s) :

Funded by the ACLS, American Council for Learned Societies USA

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale

Collections :

Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Submission date :

2023-06-06T09:20:41Z
2023-06-16T15:15:23Z

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