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Greater Tibet, Kirti monastery and China's religious policies / Lama, Jigme Yeshe

Lama, Jigme Yeshe	Journal Article
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2011.

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China ; Tibet ; Communist Party ; Religious Policies ; Monastery

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ID: 132286

Innovation in traditions of transformation: preliminary survey of a quarter century of change in the Bahahs and Bahis of the Kathmandu Valley / Owens, Bruce Mccoy

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2014.

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The Newar monastic compounds of the Kathmandu Valley (b?h??s and bah?s) are the centres of what is arguably the world's oldest continuously practised form of Buddhism. This article presents a preliminary analysis of a survey that revisited these compounds 25 years after the publication of John Locke's exhaustive study in order to understand how these fundamental institutions of Newar Buddhism have been affected by the radical transformations that Nepalese society has undergone since then. It suggests that Newar practitioners of the dharma have often expressed their devotion in ways that are at once traditional and vitally innovative, transforming these compounds as well as the means through which they transform them in myriad ways. The conspicuous democratisation of sponsorship of 'repairs' has resulted in alterations that conform to notions of authenticity-old and new, Newar and foreign-as well as deliberate departures from tradition.

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Social interaction ; Nepal ; Buddhism ; Dilemma ; Historic Preservation ; Monastery ;
Religious Tradition ; Kathmandu Valley ; Newar ; Vih?ra ; B?h?? ; Bah? ;
Vajray?na ; Preliminary Analysis ; Nepali Identities ; Radical Transformations ; Nepali Society ; Monastic Communities ;
Devotional Transformation

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ID: 130029

Legacy of Kaniska and Kashmir / Haldhar, Siyaram Mishra

Haldhar, Siyaram Mishra	Journal Article
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2014.

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According to Kalhana's Rajatarangini, Kaniska founded many monasteries and caityas. He founded a city named Kaniskapura which has been identified with the modern Kanispur in Kashmir. Kansika erected a Great Tope which was named after him. To the west of the Tope he built a large monastery which was known as Kansika Mahavihara. Both these structures were erected at Purusapura (modern Peshawar). The Great Tope or the Kaniska Tope was magnificent structure 400 feet high, the base being in Yun and Yuan Chwang have lavished great praise on the architectural beauty of this important relic tower. The Kaniska Mahavihara, was an 'Old Monastery' at the time when Yuan Chwang visited it in the seventh century A.D.

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Buddhism ; Monastery ; Buddhist literature ; Kaniska Mahavihara

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