Renunciation and Longing

The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint

von Annabella Pitkin

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, this study reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. > In Renunciation and Longing, Annabella Pitkin explores devotion, renunciation, and the teacher-student lineage relationship as resources for understanding Tibetan Buddhist approaches to modernity. By examining narrative accounts of the life of a remarkable twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist and focusing on his remembered identity as a renunciant bodhisattva, Pitkin illuminates Tibetan and Himalayan practices of memory, affective connection, and mourning. Refuting long-standing caricatures of Tibetan Buddhist communities as unable to be modern because of their religious commitments, Pitkin shows instead how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist narrators have used themes of renunciation, devotion, and lineage as touchstones for negotiating loss and vitalizing continuity.

• ISBN: 9780226816920
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.05.2022
• Größe: 226 x 150 mm
• Verlag: University of Chicago Press