essay
The revival of monastic life in Deprung Monastery
buddhism in contemporary tibet : religious revival and cultural identity • Berkeley • Published In 1998 • Pages: 15-52
By: Goldstein, Melvyn C..
Abstract
The article outlines four periods of Tibet Buddhism under in Communist era, focusing on Drepung Monastery, Tibet's largest. The four periods are 1951-1959, a gradualist period of accommodation albeit ending with the abortive Tibetan uprising; 1959-1966, when Beijing dismantled monastery supports. 1966 marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and an all out attempt to destroy religion. By the end of these last two periods, the population of monks at the monastery had shrunk to 306 from a 1959 high of 10,000. The final period began in 1978, the year of the liberalizing reforms of the Eleventh Party Plenum, which restored of religious practices. The authors document the work of the Democratic Management Committee (DMC), a committee of poorer and progressive monks, and its efforts to gradually restore the monastic way of life.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2009
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1978-1996
- Coverage Place
- Lhasa, Tibet
- Notes
- Melvyn c. Goldstein
- For bibliographical references see document 30: Goldstein and Kapstein
- LCCN
- 97026851
- LCSH
- Tibet (China)--Ethnology