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Review of Tibetan Religious Studies under the Perspective of Anthropology

  

  1. (Yunnan Provincial Institute for Ethnic Research, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, 650500, China)
  • Received:2016-08-15 Revised:2016-10-14 Online:2016-11-15 Published:2016-11-15

Abstract:

From the beginning of 17th century, anthropologists in Europe, America and Japan have carried out extensive researches on
Tibetan religion, which accumulated considerable academic achievements on Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan society, rituals, Buddhism art
and religious practice. And the empirical research paradigm of Tibetan religion has shifted from orientalism and colonialism to
structural-functionalism after the Second World War. Since 1980s, the anthropology research on Tibetan religion has thrived again,
and Chinese scholars discussed how to realize inherit and transform of Tibetan Buddhism under the perspective of modernization,
which pushing forward the construction of native discourse system in Tibetan studies.

Key words: Tibetan religion, anthropology, empirical research

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