Category: Buddhism
Event Start:
Monday, March 1, 2010 - 5:00pm
Location:
EALAC Lounge Room (403 Kent Hall)
Monday March 1st, 5 pm in EALAC Lounge Room (403 Kent Hall)
Martin Mills
The Presence of Divinity in Tibetan Buddhist Ritual
An examination of the performance of ritual amongst Tibetan Buddhist communities in the Western Himalaya. The lecture will look at certain principal ritual actions - such as the recitation of scripture and mantras - in the performance of exorcistic and healing rites, and examine the manner in which these ritual actions are linked by their participants to the question of divine presence, whether in the form of classical tantric evocations of divine power, or in the form of more localised possession events. read more »
