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The systematic dynamics of guru yoga in euro-north american gelug-pa formations

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Apple, James
Author
Emory-Moore, Christopher
Accessioned
2012-09-13T21:16:55Z
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2012-11-13T08:01:36Z
Issued
2012-09-13
Submitted
2012
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guru
lama
buddhism
Subject
Religion
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Thesis
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Abstract
This thesis explores the adaptation of the Tibetan Buddhist guru/disciple relation by Euro-North American communities and argues that its praxis is that of a self-motivated disciple’s devotion to a perceptibly selfless guru. Chapter one provides a reception genealogy of the Tibetan guru/disciple relation in Western scholarship, followed by historical-anthropological descriptions of its practice reception in both Tibetan and Euro-North American formations. Through a structural analysis of the Gelug-pa school’s primary ‘guru yoga’ text, Blo-bzang chos-kyi rgyal-mtshan’s Bla-ma mchod-pa, chapter two argues that the ritual’s basic definition is the guru/disciple relation mediated by the gift and transvalued through the principle of emptiness. Through structural analyses of anthropological data, chapter three identifies the Euro-North American guru/disciple hierarchy as Tibetan monk teacher/non-Tibetan student, in which the guru’s authority derives from his perceived transcendence of what Anthony Giddens calls the reflexive project of the self.
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University of Calgary
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Graduate Studies
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5072/PRISM/28396
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http://hdl.handle.net/11023/191
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