Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary
Janet Gyatso
An investigation into what is known in Tibet as "secret autobiography", a literary genre that presents a personal exploration of intimate religious experiences. The text focuses on the secret autobiographies by the Tibetan Buddhist visionary, Jigme Lingpa (1730-1798), whose writings are as much the nature of his own identity, memory and the undecidabilities of autobiographical truth as they are narrations of the actual content of his own experiences. The book examines the questions of why Tibetan Buddhists produced so many autobiographies, and how autobigraphical self-assertion is possible even while Buddhists believe that the self is ultimately an illusion. Also explored are Jigme Lingpa's historical milieu, his revelatory visions of the ancient Tibetan dynasty, and his mediative practices of personal cultivation
Anno:
1998
Casa editrice:
Princeton University Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
384
ISBN 10:
0691011109
ISBN 13:
9780691011103
File:
PDF, 25.84 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1998
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