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: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | 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: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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 online resource (264 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110758221 3110758229 9783110758870 3110758873 9783110758962 3110758962 |