Guest lecture given for ANTH30003 - Society, Politics, and the Sacred at University of Melbourne, 21 Sept 2016. References will probably be the most useful part :)

1. State, Society, and Tibetan
Buddhism in Contemporary China
Dr. Gerald Roche
@GJosephRoche
g.roche@unimelb.edu.au
ANTH30003—Society, Politics, and the Sacred

2. Tibet
Not Just Tibetans, Not Just Buddhists

3. Tibetan Buddhism
Geoffrey Samuel
Bodhi orientation Pragmatic orientationKarma orientation

4. Tibetan Buddhism
Geoffrey Samuel
Mixed orientations

5. Tibetan Buddhism
Geoffrey Samuel
Shamanic BuddhismClerical Buddhism

6. Tibetan Buddhism
Clerical and Shamanic

7. Tibetan Buddhism
Robert Ekvall – ‘Religious Work’
• Faith: dadpa དད་པ།
• Verbalization: cheendon ཆོས་འདོན།
• Offerings: mchodpa མཆོད་པ།
• Salutations: shyag ཕྱག
• Circumambulation: korwa བསོར་བ།
• Divination: mo མོ།

8. State, Society, and Tibetan Buddhism
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SOCIETY BUDDHISMINT’L

9. State, Society, and Tibetan Buddhism
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BUDDHISMSTATE
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16. References
• Caple, Jane. 2015. Faith, Generosity, Knowledge and the Buddhist Gift: Moral
Discourses on Chinese Patronage of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries. Religion
Compass 9(11):462-482.
• Gaerrang (Kabzung). 2015. Development as Entangled Knot: The Case of the
Slaughter Renunciation Movement in Tibet, China. Journal of Asian Studies.
74(4):927-952.
• Gayley, Holly. 2016. Controversy over Buddhist Ethical Reform: A Secular Critique
of Clerical Authority in the Tibetan Blogosphere. Himalaya: The Journal of the
Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 36(1): 22-43.
• Gayley, Holly. 2013. Reimagining Buddhist Ethics on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of
Buddhist Ethics. 20:246-286.
• Power, John. 2016. The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of China Works to
Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Roche, Gerald and Sa mtsho skyid. Purity and Fortune in Phug sde Village Rituals.
https://www.academia.edu/1772774/Purity_and_Fortune_in_Phug_sde_Tibetan_
Village_Rituals
• Samuel, Geoffrey. 2012. Introducing Tibetan Buddhism. London: Routledge.
• Yeh, Emily. 2013. Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions: Nationalism, Cultural Politics,
and Spectacular Decommodification in Tibet. Journal of Asian Studies 72(2):319-
344.

17. Images
• Tibetan Muslims: anonymous, WeChat
• Bodhi orientation; by Achmad Munasit : http://idealist4ever.com/wp-
content/uploads/2016/03/0ru.jpg
• Karma orientation; anonymous: http://www.exploretibet.com/blog/tibet-kaleidoscope-
of-prayer-wheels/
• Pragmatic orientation; by me:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldroche/6971663719/in/album-
72157629558658273/
• Mixed orientation; by me:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldroche/9553885876/in/album-
72157635147919607/
• Clerical Buddhism: http://www.thetibetpost.com/images/stories/June-2016/Serta-
Larung-Kham-Tibet.jpg
• Shamanic Buddhism – photograph by Lugyal Bum
• Clerical and Shamanic: https://au.pinterest.com/pin/156851999499794066/
• Drolma Girl: http://blogs.harvard.edu/genderedtibet/2016/09/03/drolmasheep/;
https://triciakehoe.com/2016/09/04/the-politics-of-animal-release-in-contemporary-
tibet-part-one/