When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global A Study of the Adaptation of Bon Religious Practices in the West
This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet's so-called "indigenous religion," to the West in the context of globalization. It shows how Bon, including Dzogchen m...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2022
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| Series: | Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie Centrale
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet's so-called "indigenous religion," to the West in the context of globalization. It shows how Bon, including Dzogchen meditation, is lived by its followers in the West and how a particular religion expands and integrates into new cultural settings as a consequence of globalization. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (264 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110758870 9783110758221 9783110758962 |
| Access: | Open Access |