essay
Introduction
Buddhism in contemporary Tibet : religious revival and cultural identity • Berkeley • Published In 1998 • Pages: 1-14
By: Goldstein, Melvyn C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief account of Tibet's tumultuous relationship with China and the destruction and revival of Tibetan Buddhism from 1949 through to the post-collectivization era in the 1980s and 90s. The study focuses on the consequences of loosening religious freedom by Deng Xiaoping in 1978 and the continued political negotiations between the exile government in Dharamsala, India and Beijing over Tibet autonomy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External relations
- Miscellaneous government activities
- Political movements
- Theological systems
- Religious intolerance and martyrs
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tibetans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1949-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tibet
- NotesAdditional notes
- Melvyn c. Goldstein
- For bibliographical references see document 30: Goldstein and Kapstein
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97026851
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tibet (China)--Ethnology