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Rime: Impartiality in Tibetan Buddhism and Beyond
Rime: Impartiality in Tibetan Buddhism and Beyond
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152137
- ISBN
- 9798384018469
- DDC
- 352
- 서명/저자
- Rime: Impartiality in Tibetan Buddhism and Beyond
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 327 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Jacoby, Sarah H.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation investigates the meanings, uses, and implications of a Buddhist approach called rime within the Tibetan-exiled community living in India. Rime has been understood as an ideal of impartiality, a nineteenth movement of non-sectarianism led by Jamgon Kongtrul and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and a practice of non-bias originating in the Buddha's teachings. Scholarly work on this topic thus far has focused on historical understandings and deployments of rime as non-sectarianism but has overlooked contemporary perspectives of this fundamental Buddhist approach. I first revisit the historical scholarship, specifically about Kongtrul and Khyentse's efforts, by contending that the rime movement was a trans-sectarian endeavor aimed to preserve teachings, as a response to the sectarian environment in Tibet. Building onto this understanding of Tibetan Buddhist history, this dissertation foregrounds contemporary theories and practices related to rime by highlighting the voices of monastics and renowned Tibetan leaders from the four main Tibetan Buddhist traditions based primarily in India. Through extensive interviews in Tibetan, combined with textual analysis, this study advances scholarship by underscoring the myriad interpretations and uses of rime today. Although Tibetan Buddhists today by and large talk about rime in terms of non-sectarianism, I argue that the rime approach cannot be understood holistically without noting what I outline as a framework of different categories or levels of rime, such as individual rime practice, rime seminars, institutional rime, and ultimate rime.The importance of these distinctions to rime becomes contentiously evident in the second half of the dissertation. I move on to demonstrate how Tibetan Buddhist masters use teachings on rime as tools for their immediate needs, expanding understandings of rime beyond impartiality to include equality, non-sectarianism, fairness, and the most unprecedented, secularism. Thus, I reveal how the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's deployment of rime extends outside Buddhism for the purposes of Tibetan nation-building, inter-religious harmony, and secular ethics. Khyentse lineage holders, conversely, strive to safeguard the authenticity of rime according to its historical teachings and deployments as only a Buddhist practice. By analyzing this divergence, I suggest how the consequences of rime practice, discourses, and teachings can potentially extend well beyond Buddhist practitioners as a crucial intervention to the problems of sectarianism, bias, and prejudice so prevalent in the world today. Hence, I conclude by proposing a middle way approach that prevents the appropriation of rime for political or economic gain, by emphasizing its soteriological roots and addressing its historical importance, while accommodating its applications inside and outside Buddhism.
- 일반주제명
- Regional studies
- 일반주제명
- Religious education
- 일반주제명
- Religious history
- 키워드
- Impartiality
- 키워드
- Nonsectarianism
- 키워드
- Sectarianism
- 키워드
- Tibetan Buddhism
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Religious Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0163.
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■650 4▼aReligious education
■650 4▼aReligious history
■653 ▼aImpartiality
■653 ▼aNonsectarianism
■653 ▼aSectarianism
■653 ▼aTibetan Buddhism
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