Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition Ruth Gamble 0190690798 9780190690793

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• ISBN 10: 0190690798
• ISBN 13: 9780190690793
• Author: Ruth Gamble

Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorjé (1284-1339) transformed reincarnation from a belief into a lasting Tibetan institution. Born the son of an itinerant, low-caste potter, Rangjung Dorjé went on to become a foundational figure in Tibetan Buddhism and a teacher of the last Mongolian emperor. He became renowned for his contributions to Buddhist philosophy, literature, astrology, medicine, architecture, sacred geography and manuscript production. But, as Ruth Gamble demonstrates, his most important legacy was the transformation of the Karmapa reincarnation lineage to ensure that, after his death, subsequent Karmapas were able to assume power in the religious institutions he had led. The inheritance model of reincarnation instituted by Rangjung Dorjé changed the Tibetan Plateau’s power relations, which until that time had been based on family associations, and created a precedent for later reincarnate institutions, including that of the Dalai Lamas.

Table of contents:

1. Lifetimes

2. Lineages

3. Communities

4. Landscapes

5. From Death to Childhood

6. From Latö to Tsurpu

7. Into the Mountains

8. Between Kongpo and Xanadu

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