This volume is the first to approach Tibetan life writing from a literary and narratological perspective, encompassing a wide range of disciplines, themes, media, and historical periods, and thus opening new and vibrant areas of research to future scholarship across the Humanities.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Part I: Memory and Imagination in Tibetan Hagiographical Writing 1. Between Self-Expression and Convention: Tibetan Reflections on Autobiographical Writing 2. Nested Autobiography: Life Writing Within Larger Works 3. From Song to Biography and from Biography to Song: The Use of gur in Marpa's namthar 4. The namthar in Khalkha Dzaya Pä ita Lobsang Trinle (1642-1715)'s Clear Mirror 5. Reincarnation and Personal Identity in The Lives of Tibetan Masters: Linking the Revelations of Three Lamas of the Dudjom Tradition 6. Traces of Female Voices and Women's Lives in Tibetan Male Sacred Biography 7. Forest Walking, Meditation and Sore Feet: The Southern Buddhist Biographical Tradition of Ajahn Mun and His Followers Part II: Conjuring Tibetan Lives 8. Memory, Politics, and Peace in the Autobiography of Sumpa Khenpo 9. Genealogy, Autobiography, Memoir: The Secular Life Narrative of Doring Tenzin Penjor 10. The Crafting Memory of the Self. Reflections on Tibetan Diary-Keeping 11. Family Matters: Women's Spaces and Quiet Truths in House of the Turquoise Roof and Dalai Lama, My Son 12. The Wandering Voice of Tibet: Life and Songs of Dubhe 13. Bearers of the Past, Bridges with the Beyond: The Complicated Lives of Ordinary Objects
