When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global

This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet’s so-called indigenous religion, to the West in the context of globalization. It shows how Bon, including Dzogchen meditation, is liv...

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Päätekijä: Arizaga, Mara Lisa
Aineistotyyppi: Online
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: De Gruyter 2022
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Linkit:ONIX_20220825_9783110758870_40
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Yhteenveto:This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet’s so-called indigenous religion, to the West in the context of globalization. It shows how Bon, including Dzogchen meditation, is lived by its followers in the West and how a particular religion expands and integrates into new cultural settings as a consequence of globalization.