Prof. Dr. Dan Smyer Yu Nestling with Gods: Mandalizing Mountains

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Prof. Dr. Dan Smyer Yu
Center for Trans-Himalayan Studies, Yunnan Minzu University
Nestling with Gods: Mandalizing Mountains
and Place-Making in Amdo (Qinghai)
středa 1. dubna 2015, 14:10 – 15:45, učebna B2.24
(Arne Nováka 1, FF MU, Brno)
This paper, based on the author’s ethnographic work, pertains to a case of Buddhist
practice being place-grounded and ecologically engaged in the daily routines of Tibetans
in the Amdo region. It inquiries into how Buddhism is not merely a work of human
spirituality but is, in the author’s terms, “inter-sentient communication,” “shared
hierarchy,” and “inter-rootedness,” whose materiality is shown in Buddhists’
mandalizing their dwelling places in close proximity to the religiously significant but
highly humanized mountain range known as “Nine Deity Mountains” (སྲིད་པ་ ཆགས་པའྲི་ལྷ་དགུ).
Through detailing a unique place-gods-human relationship at a village in Amdo, this
paper examines how individual Buddhist routines, which involve interacting with
mountain deities, bear pragmatic significance for the preservation of the village
inhabitants’ collective memory, the ecological wellbeing of their living environment, and
their personal flourishing. On the theoretical front, this paper wishes to articulate an
argument that Buddhism in this ethnographic case as a lived religion is both embodied
and implaced in human consciousness and in the lifeworld of the local residents.
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