Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library)

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This book offers the primary in-depth examination of the life and writings of Lama Zhang (1122-1193), key figure within the “Tibetan renaissance.” Controversial, larger-than-life, already revered as a literary innovator and tantric meditation master, Zhang entered public life in mid-career and forged a new model of rulership and non secular community that may set the usual for later religious rulers of Lhasa–so much notably the Dalai Lamas. The point of interest of the model used to be the tantric hermit who comes down from the mountains and sustains a worldly community through his mastery of space, time, and symbol. The topic is approached through a complex of related issues: lineage and tradition-formation, aura and hegemony, literary genre, textual economy, and the politics of tantra.

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