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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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External relations
- Miscellaneous government activities
- Political movements
- Theological systems
- Prophets and ascetics
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1978-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lhasa, 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