2022年12月29日 · In an area like Repkong, where they present a high demographic density, large-scale supra-local annual ritual gatherings of tantrists are virtually synonymous with, and crucial for, their collective existence.
(PDF) Why Hair Needs to Be Long: Religious Identity
2018年11月20日 · This study of the Repkong tantrists’ capillary culture will argue that their hair, at the intersection between the bodily, the social and the political, constitutes an overdetermined religious ...
Money, Butter and Religion: Remarks on Participation in the Large …
Many Repkong tantrists recall that, in the 1940s, the coalition of prominent tantrists, Nyingma lamas and local chiefs who attempted to institute the large Shitro ritual, the first ritual that was to bring together Nyingma tantrists from all parts of Repkong, and in particular from both the Minling and the Nyingtik traditions that were present ...
Assessing and Adapting Rituals That Reproduce a Collectivity
2018年9月1日 · Tantrists, non-monastic religious specialists of Tibetan Buddhism, constitute a diffuse, non-centralized form of clergy. In an area like Repkong, where they present a high demographic density, large-scale supra-local annual ritual gatherings of tantrists are virtually synonymous with, and crucial for, their collective existence.
Nicolas Sihlé - Tsadra Commons
His current major research project focuses on the large communities of Buddhist and Bönpo tantrists of the Repkong district in northeast Tibet (Chinese Qinghai province), where is has been conducting fieldwork since 2003.
Money, Butter and Religion: Remarks on Participation in
2013年1月1日 · Chapter. Money, Butter and Religion: Remarks on Participation in the Large‐Scale Collective Rituals of the Rep kong (sic, for Repkong) Tantrists. January 2013. Authors: Nicolas Sihlé. French...
Repkong Tantric Practitioners and Their Environment
2015年7月15日 · This paper is based on my fieldwork in a Tibetan farming and semi-pastoral village located in the Amdo (Chinese: Qinghai) Repkong area. The villagers resemble ordinary rural Tibetan householders: farming, herding, and raising their children.
Nicolas Sihlé - ResearchGate
Nicolas Sihlé. Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance to keeping their hair long. The importance of tantrists’ hair is particularly...
Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance to keeping their hair long. The importance of tantrists’ hair is particularly striking in Repkong county (northeastern Tibet), which is famous for its large numbers of tantrists, many of whom wear dreadlocks wound around their heads.
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Religious Identity, Embodied Divinity and Power among the Repkong Tantrists (North-East Tibet)