The dissertation examines the life narrative of Tsongkhapa Losang Dragpa (1357-1419), the influential founder of the Ganden school of Tibetan Buddhism, primarily through the lens of the bodhisattva path to enlightenment, a topic that animates much of Indian Buddhist literature a…
藏傳佛教寺院最高的地方，總是供養著曼茶羅，曼茶羅是佛教最為殊勝的供養，也是佛教中最寶貴的財產之一。本研究以曼茶羅為象徵，希望看到曼茶羅所象徵的藏傳佛教宗教財產的全貌，旨在通過當代中國宗教政策和宗教法律的背景以此來建構藏傳佛教宗教財產法律概念之核心和外延，其法律概念之核心即宗教財產的歸屬問題，而其外延則是以宗教財歸屬問題為核心的一切法律關係。本研究建構藏傳佛教宗教財產法律概念以德沃金“建構性解釋”的法律方法論為指導，通過“理論背景”、“宗教語境”以及“法律實踐”三個部分的內容來建構藏傳佛教宗教財產的具體內容。其中“理論背景”部分追溯了當代中國宗教財產的法…
Longchen Rabjam (Klong chen rab 'byams) was a fourteenth century Tibetan Nyingma master who wrote countless works on Buddhist thought and practice, specifically Dzogchen (Rdzogs chen). This thesis considers his use of Indian Buddhist metaphor in Sgyu ma ngal gso (Finding Rest in…
Recent scholarship in religious studies, philosophy, and other disciplines supports the view that the formation of individuals and communities is made possible through differentiations of various kinds of space, such as physical, disciplinary, and symbolic spaces. These spatial …
Since Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s, the Chinese state has extended and intensified its economic development agenda, trying to shape its citizens to become rational market actors who prioritize commodity production. In Tibetan pastoral areas, this takes the form …
