Chapter 12 Tibetan Buddhism today and tomorrow Main topics covered Introduction Tibetan Buddhism in the Peoples Republic of China Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas and the Tibetan diaspora ID: 799096
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Slide1
Introducing Tibetan Buddhism
Chapter 12:
Tibetan Buddhism today
and tomorrow
Slide2Main topics covered
Introduction
Tibetan Buddhism in the People’s Republic of China
Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas and the Tibetan
diaspora
Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia,
Buryatia
,
Tuva
and
Kalmykia
Tibetan Buddhism as a
global religion
Conclusion: Tibetan Buddhism in a
new environment
Slide3Key points 1
Tibetan Buddhism is a versatile and adaptable religion, and despite the traumas of the Cultural Revolution and the difficulties of Chinese rule more generally, it remains alive within Chinese-controlled Tibet and is finding new followers throughout the world.
Within Chinese-controlled Tibet, the period of
liberalization
in the 1980s has been followed by continuing attempts to subordinate Tibetan Buddhism to state policy and intermittent suppression where these attempts have failed.
Slide4Buddhism in Chinese-controlled Tibet
The new square constructed in front of the
Jokhang
in central Lhasa, 1987
Slide5Buddhism in Chinese-controlled Tibet
Samye
Monastery under reconstruction, 1987
Slide6Key points 2
Outside
Chinese-controlled Tibet, Buddhist teaching and practice traditions have continued and flourished among culturally Tibetan populations in the Himalayas, among the Tibetan
diaspora
, and increasingly among non-Tibetan populations around the world. Tibetan Buddhism has also undergone a revival among traditionally Buddhist populations in independent Mongolia and in Mongolian regions of Russia and China.
Slide7Tibetan Buddhism in India and Nepal
Namdrolling
Monastery, South India. Photo by Ruth Rickard, 1991
Slide8Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Merigar
Gompa
, Italy. Photo by Helen Williams, 2011
Slide9Key points 3
Tibetan Buddhism is taking on new forms as it becomes an increasingly global religion and adapts to new languages and to peoples from very different cultural backgrounds to that of Tibet. The
long-term
consequences of this transformation are difficult to foresee, but the religion as a whole is establishing itself effectively on a global scale, and increasingly entering into
a dialogue
with Western modes of thinking and knowledge.
Slide10The end