Abstract
Through over ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in Amdo Ngawa (Tibetan region in China) and among Sino-Tibetan Buddhist communities in Chengdu (urban China), this paper examines liquid Tibetan Buddhists as an instance of the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist’s interaction bridge in contemporary China. It narrates the workable definition and classification of liquid Tibetan lamas/monks, and then it seeks to demonstrate the convoluted social network pertinent to liquid Tibetan lamas covering mainland China and Tibetan regions. Based on the above findings, it attempts to interpret why liquid Tibetan Buddhists are dedicated to building a transregional, trans-ethnic, and trans-cultural linkage in Chinese wider society. Three factors are woven into the cause behind it: the individual factor, the institutional factor, and the religious-social factor.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Religious Community and Socialization
KEYWORDS
Liquid Tibetan Lama, Social Network, Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Interaction
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