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Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism (review)

Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa... BOOK REVIEWS versation partners, even friends. Ontotheological foundations--revealed, tried, exonerated--graciously manage to provide deep rooted and fruitful places for learning. Reading Hindu texts through other Catholic and Jesuit eyes, but still with Derridean care and agility, promises to complement and even reconstruct this pioneering Buddhisms and Deconstructions and its Magliolan inspiration. Francis X. Clooney, SJ Harvard University IDENTITY, RITUAL AND STATE IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM: THE FOUNDATIONS OF AUTHORITY IN GELUKPA MONASTICISM. By Martin A. Mills. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 404 þ xxi pp. with 12 black and white plates. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a type of teaching called a dmar khrid, a ``red instruction,'' wherein the lama brings students through a teaching as a physician might dissect a corpse, pointing out and explaining the various parts and organs and their places and functions. In Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism, Martin Mills has done very much the same thing, with the exception that the body he examines is still very much alive, and emerges, to my eyes at least, as a new and wholly vital entity. Mills exposes the subcutaneous and sanguine body of Tibetan Buddhism, the bones and muscles that make up its structure, the blood http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Buddhist-Christian Studies University of Hawai'I Press

Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism (review)

Haskett, Christian P. B.
Buddhist-Christian Studies , Volume 27 (1) – Aug 30, 2007
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BOOK REVIEWS versation partners, even friends. Ontotheological foundations--revealed, tried, exonerated--graciously manage to provide deep rooted and fruitful places for learning. Reading Hindu texts through other Catholic and Jesuit eyes, but still with Derridean care and agility, promises to complement and even reconstruct this pioneering Buddhisms and Deconstructions and its Magliolan inspiration. Francis X. Clooney, SJ Harvard University IDENTITY, RITUAL AND STATE IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM: THE FOUNDATIONS OF AUTHORITY IN GELUKPA MONASTICISM. By Martin A. Mills. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 404 þ xxi pp. with 12 black and white plates. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a type of teaching called a dmar khrid, a ``red instruction,'' wherein the lama brings students through a teaching as a physician might dissect a corpse, pointing out and explaining the various parts and organs and their places and functions. In Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism, Martin Mills has done very much the same thing, with the exception that the body he examines is still very much alive, and emerges, to my eyes at least, as a new and wholly vital entity. Mills exposes the subcutaneous and sanguine body of Tibetan Buddhism, the bones and muscles that make up its structure, the blood

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