"Lamas" as seen from China : fascination and repulsion The Chinese phantasmagoria of Tibetan monks abound in images of fascination and repulsion. The representation of the "lama" in China is a superposition of the full variety of images of foreign clerics (fanseng) from the "West" (India, Central Asia and Tibet). The image of the depraved Tantrist, expert in black magic and sexual techniques, coexists with that of the holy arhat. The discourse on lamas in novels, official documents and the Chinese press has developed along four broad themes : "Lamaist" heterodoxy, the Barbarian monk, the evil influence of lamas on emperors and ordinary people, as well as the personality cult of the "Living Buddhas". Lamas were subjected to the same anticle...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceA strange Mongolian scroll is preserved at the library of the Institut des Hau...
International audienceLes fantasmes chinois sur les moines tibétains sont faits de fascination et de...
International audienceLes fantasmes chinois sur les moines tibétains sont faits de fascination et de...
International audienceLes fantasmes chinois sur les moines tibétains sont faits de fascination et de...
International audienceThe number of monks breaking their vows is so great in the Ming and Qing verna...
International audienceThe number of monks breaking their vows is so great in the Ming and Qing verna...
The Tibetan political and religious situation has changed considerably since the Chinese army onslau...
The Tibetan political and religious situation has changed considerably since the Chinese army onslau...
International audienceBy analysing the role played by esoteric buddhism in Chinese novels from the M...
International audienceBy analysing the role played by esoteric buddhism in Chinese novels from the M...
The object of this report is to bring to light the role of the annual events in Lamaism in modern so...
The object of this report is to bring to light the role of the annual events in Lamaism in modern so...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceA strange Mongolian scroll is preserved at the library of the Institut des Hau...
International audienceLes fantasmes chinois sur les moines tibétains sont faits de fascination et de...
International audienceLes fantasmes chinois sur les moines tibétains sont faits de fascination et de...
International audienceLes fantasmes chinois sur les moines tibétains sont faits de fascination et de...
International audienceThe number of monks breaking their vows is so great in the Ming and Qing verna...
International audienceThe number of monks breaking their vows is so great in the Ming and Qing verna...
The Tibetan political and religious situation has changed considerably since the Chinese army onslau...
The Tibetan political and religious situation has changed considerably since the Chinese army onslau...
International audienceBy analysing the role played by esoteric buddhism in Chinese novels from the M...
International audienceBy analysing the role played by esoteric buddhism in Chinese novels from the M...
The object of this report is to bring to light the role of the annual events in Lamaism in modern so...
The object of this report is to bring to light the role of the annual events in Lamaism in modern so...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceAfter the fall of the Qing dynasty, China faced a change in leadership, and wa...
International audienceA strange Mongolian scroll is preserved at the library of the Institut des Hau...