Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism The Life Writings and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen 1st Edition by James Duncan Gentry ISBN 9004335048 9789004335042

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ISBN 10: 9004335048 
ISBN 13: 9789004335042
Author: James Duncan Gentry

Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism The Life Writings and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: Objects in Narrative

• Introduction to Part 1
• 1 In the Vicinity of Things—Substance, Violence, and Power in the Milieu of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen (1552–1624)
  • Introduction
  • The Shifting Tides of Clerical Influence and Authority: Religion, Politics, and Materiality in the Time of Sokdokpa
  • Sokdokpa’s Influences and Milieu: Violent Rites, Brahmin Flesh, and Other Object-oriented Bonds
  • Treasure Revealer Zhikpo Lingpa: Political Leader of Nangtsé and Guru of Sokdokpa
  • Sokdokpa’s Influences from the Frontier: The Mön Treasure Revealers Yongdzin Ngawang Drakpa and Tuksé Dawa Gyeltsen
  • Reflections on the Convergence of Political Power, Ritual, and Substance in Sokdokpa’s Milieu
• 2 Prowess and Persona in the Wielding of Things—Exorcisms, Objects, and Insights in the Life and Literary Career of a Mongol-repelling Scholar-Adept
  • The Spiritual and Material Life of an Exorcist Yogi
  • A Literature of Precedent, Protection, and Perfection: The Writings of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen
    • Apologia and Theory
    • Narrative
    • Liturgy and Ritual Commentary
  • Rhetoric of an Exorcist: The Construction of Sokdokpa’s Public Identity
  • Persuasion, Cynicism, and Deceit in Sokdokpa’s Use of Prophecy
  • Righteousness, Infamy, and Authority in Ritual Prowess
  • Personal Qualifications for Ritual Prowess
  • Final Reflections on Sokdokpa’s Rhetoric in the ‘History’

Part 2: Objects in Theory and Practice

• 3 Controversies over Things—Drawing, Blurring, and Crossing Boundaries
  • Introduction
  • Visionary Glimpses
  • Powerful Speech
  • Amulet Practice
  • Brahmin Flesh and Other “Liberating” Edibles
  • Concluding Remarks
• 4 Things in Action and the Actions of Things—A Dynamic Ontology of Ritual Objects
  • Introduction
  • Sokdokpa’s Matters of Concern
  • Incorporation, Contact, and Ingestion in Pill Practices
    • Brahmin Flesh: Discourse, Performance, and Consumption
    • Mediated Origins, Hybrid Ingredients
    • Multimedia Ritual Accomplishment
    • Deity Yoga in the Creation of Self and Other
    • Pills as “Catalysts” and “Vehicles”
    • Ambrosia: Medicinal Concoction and Tantric Sacrament
    • Edible Concoctions of Power: Common Patterns
    • The Efficacy of Ambrosia Ingredients: Categories and Homologies
    • The Orthopraxy of Aesthetic Criteria
    • Knowledge and its Consequences
  • Artifacts of Violence, Substances of Danger
    • The Contagion of Danger and Death
    • The Orthopraxy of Violence
    • Materializing and Mastering Unseen Forces
    • Violent Outbursts, the Call to Collective Action, and Other Publicly Observable Aspects of Efficacy
    • “Signs” of Success and Their Signified Outcomes
    • Creating the Self through Killing the Other
    • Concluding Remarks on Enemy-oriented Rites
  • Vision, Exegesis, and Touch in the Use of Initiation Substances and Introduction Props
    • Materiality and Meaning in the Nine-Vehicle Initiation Ritual
    • The Visual and Tactile Reception of Objects
    • The Communicative Competency of Things
    • Substance and Sign in the Complex Semiotics of Objects
    • In the Mirror of Mind: Sense and Semiosis in a Mind-Nature Introduction Liturgy
    • Materiality and Meaning in the Use of Initiation Substance
    • Artifacts in the Rapprochement of Subject-Object Duality
    • Iconicity and Exegesis in the Semiosis of Props
    • Final Reflections on Sokdokpa’s Ritual Ethos

Part 3: Aftereffects

• 5 Continuities and Contentions over Things—The Legacy of Sokdokpa and the Material Links of Political Authority

  • Introduction
  • The Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lozang Gyatso (1617–1682) and the Eradication of Sokdokpa’s Legacy
  • Tukse Dawa Gyeltsen’s Travels and the Diffusion of Sokdokpa’s Legacy through the Sikkim State-Formation Project
  • Objects of Power in the Modern and Contemporary Periods: Their Production, Narrativization, and Implementation

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