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In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, known in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt Female Pig. After suffering a great personal tragedy, Chokyi Dronma renounced her royal status to become a nun, and, in turn, the tantric consort of three outstanding religious masters of her era. After her death, Chokyi Dronma's masters and disciples recognized a young girl as her reincarnation, the first in a long, powerful, and influential female lineage. Today, the twelfth Samding Dorje Phagmo leads the Samding monastery and is a high government cadre in the Tibet Autonomous Region.Hildegard Diemberger builds her book around the translation of the first biography of Chokyi Dronma recorded by her disciples in the wake of her death. The account reveals an extraordinary phenomenon: although it had been believed that women in Tibet were not allowed to obtain full ordination equivalent to monks, Chokyi Dronma not only persuaded one of the highest spiritual teachers of her era to give her full ordination but also established orders for other women practitioners and became so revered that she was officially recognized as one of two principal spiritual heirs to her main master.Diemberger offers a number of theoretical arguments about the importance of reincarnation in Tibetan society and religion, the role of biographies in establishing a lineage, the necessity for religious teachers to navigate complex networks of political and financial patronage, the cultural and social innovation linked to the revival of ancient Buddhist civilizations, and the role of women in Buddhism. Four introductory, stage-setting chapters precede the biography, and four concluding chapters discuss the establishment of the reincarnation lineage and the role of the current incarnation under the peculiarly contradictory communist system.

Dorje Phagmos (Vajrav*ar*ahi incarnations) --- Biography. --- Chos-kyi-sgron-ma, --- Bsam-lding-dgon-pa (Tibet, China) --- History. --- S24/0915 --- S24/0580 --- Tibet--Tibetan Buddhism: history --- Tibet--Biographies --- Samding Monastery --- Dorje Phagmos (Vajravārāhi incarnations) --- Dorje Phagmos (Vajravārāhi incarnations) --- Samding Monastery. --- Rdo rje phag mo (Vajravārāhi incarnations) --- Vajravārāhi (Buddhist deity) --- Cult --- Chos kyi sgron me, --- Chokyi Dronma, --- Chokyi Dronme, --- Bsam-lding Gompa (Tibet, China) --- Samding monastery (Tibet, China) --- Bsam-lding Rdo-rje-phag-mo (Tibet, China) --- Samding Gompa (Tibet, China) --- Samten Ling Gompa (Tibet,China)

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Which places does Tibet include? Are people Tibetan merely because of living in those places? Territory and Identity are notions that are widely present in academic and popular discourses on Tibet. In 1992 a group of French and Austrian researchers who had studied some of the mountain deities and sacred landscapes of Tibet began meeting to discuss the links between territory and identity in Tibetan culture. Eight years later an interdisciplinary group of scholars met in Leiden in Holland to consider these questions in more detail. This book contains some of their findings, based on case studies carried out across the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. The authors look at the role of local deities, kinship, economy, politics and administration using approaches from across the social sciences to try to work out how a community constructs and reconstructs its idea of itself, and how its members think about and are affected by the land on which they were reared.

Cult --- Regional Identity --- Social Anthropology

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Buddhism --- History --- Doctrines --- History. --- 091 =954 --- 091 <515 LHASA> --- 091.07 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tibetaanse talen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tibet--LHASA --- Handschriften: facsimile's --- 091.07 Handschriften: facsimile's --- 091 <515 LHASA> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tibet--LHASA --- 091 =954 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tibetaanse talen --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Doctrines&delete& --- Philosophie tibetaine --- Bouddhisme

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This volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and aims to create a platform to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. This forum lets new materials emerge and brings to the fore a variety of different approaches to studying Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and societies. The papers in this volume deal not only with the substantial Mongolian contribution to and engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, but also with multiple readings of shared history and religion, reconstruction of traditions, shifting ethnic boundaries and the broader political context of the Mongolian-Tibetan relationship.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Mongolia --- Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) --- Mongolie --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Inner Mongolia (China) --- Tibet (China) --- Tibetan Autonomous Region (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu (China) --- 西藏自治区 (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü jen min cheng fu (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) --- TAR (China) --- Xizang Autonomous Region (China) --- Bod Raṅ-skyoṅ-ljoṅs (China) --- Bod (China) --- Sitsang (China) --- Thibet (China) --- Tibet-Chamdo (China) --- Tübüt (China) --- Xizang (China) --- Tibet --- Ȯbȯr Mongġol (China) --- Ȯvȯr Mongol (China) --- Mongolia (Inner Mongolia) --- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (China) --- Nei Meng-ku tzu chih chʻü (China) --- Nei Meng-ku (China) --- Meng-ku tzu chih pang cheng fu (China) --- Meng-ku lien meng tzu chih cheng fu (China) --- Mōko Jichichō Seifu (China) --- Mōko Renmei Jichi Seifu (China) --- Mōko Rengō Jichi Seifu (China) --- Meng-ku lien ho tzu chih cheng fu (China) --- Nei meng gu (China) --- 内蒙古 (China) --- Neimenggu (China) --- Nei menggu (China) --- Nei Meng (China) --- Neimenggu zizhiqu (China) --- Ȯbȯr Mongġol-un Ȯbertegen Jasaqu Oron (China) --- Ȯbȯr Mongġol-un Ȯbertegen Jasaqu Orun (China) --- Ȯvȯr Mongolyn Ȯȯrtȯȯ Zasakh Oron (China) --- Nei Menggu Zizhiqu (China) --- Nei Mongol Zizhiqu (China) --- Mongolia, Inner (China) --- 内蒙古自治区 (China) --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- Chaha'er Sheng (China) --- Suiyuan Sheng (China) --- Civilization. --- Tibetan influences. --- Mongolian influences. --- Тибет (China) --- Tu̇vd (China) --- Tȯvȯd (China) --- 西藏 (China)