LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ......................................... vii
FOREWORD
Orville Schell ........................................... ix
1. Introduction
Melvyn С.Goldstein ........................................ 1
2. The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery
Melvyn C.Goldstein ....................................... 15
3. Re-membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary
Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People's Republic
of China
David Germane ............................................ 53
4. A Pilgrimage of Rebirth Reborn: The 1992 Celebration
of the Drigung Powa Chenmo
Matthew T.Kapstdn ........................................ 95
5. Ritual, Ethnicity, and Generational Identity
Lawrence Epstein and Peng Wenbin ........................ 120
6. Concluding Reflections
Matthew T.Kapstein ...................................... 139
APPENDIX: Spellings of tibetan names and terms ................ 151
NOTES ......................................................... 157
BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................. 193
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS .......................................... 201
INDEX ......................................................... 203
ILLUSTRATIONS
All photographs were taken by the authors of the chapters
in which they occur.
CHAPTER 2
2.1. Drepung Monastery ......................................... 16
2.2. A senior monk and his young monk ward ..................... 17
2.3. A young Drepung monk memorizing a text .................... 18
2.4. Monastic official reading the names of patrons at
the monks' collective prayer chanting session ............. 28
2.5. Monks making tea .......................................... 29
2.6. Lay Tibetan patron distributing alms at a prayer
chanting session .......................................... 30
2.7. The Drepung dharma grove .................................. 55
2.8. Monks debating in the dharma grove ........................ 34
2.9. Pilgrims on the way to a religious teaching ............... 38
2.10.Monastery school for young monks .......................... 44
CHAPTER 3
3.1. Khenpo's home institution ................................. 63
3.2. Khenpo's home institution ................................. 64
3.3. Ritual procession of nuns colorfully dressed in wigs
and silk costumes ......................................... 67
3.4. Murals representing the visions of Great Perfection
contemplation from the Lukhang temple in Lhasa ............ 76
3.5. Selection of Ter items uncovered by Khenpo Jikphun ........ 77
3.6. A famous yellow scroll treasure text ...................... 80
3.7. The reconstructed Samye Monastery in 1990 ................. 82
3.8. Two conch shell-shaped treasure chests mentioned in the
account of Khenpo's revelations at Samye Chimphu .......... 83
3.9. Khenpo Jikphun giving blessings to a group of laymen ...... 88
CHAPTER 4
4.1. The campsite at Drongur .................................. 104
4.2. A "monk policeman" at Drongur Monastery .................. 106
4.3. Nyingmapa adepts from the nomadic region of Nakchukha .... 107
4.4. Assembly of Drigung monks before Drongur Monastery
at dawn .................................................. 108
4.5. Pilgrims ascending to the cave of the Great
Assembly Hall ............................................ 111
4.6. The beginning of the perilous descent back to Drongur .... 112
4.7. Pilgrims gathering around the tent from which the powa
teachings will be given .................................. 113
4.8. Conferring of the powa ................................... 114
4.9. Pilgrims descending the narrow trail to Terdrom .......... 115
CHAPTER 5
5.1. Substitute shaman offering ritual items before the
sedan of Anye Shachung ................................... 127
5.2. Young men performing a military dance .................... I29
5.3. Elder men preparing to cut their heads ................... 130
5.4. Elder man making a blood offering ........................ 131
5.5. Young women performing a nãga dance ...................... 131
5.6. Young man dancing with skewers in his mouth .............. 132
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