Narratives of Hospitality and Feeding in Tibetan Ritual

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8201709
AutoresFrances Garrett (University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia), Annette Erlich (University of Toronto), N Field (0009-0006-3045-9076, University of Toronto), Barbara Hazelton (University of Toronto), Martina King (0000-0002-9575-3085, University of Toronto)
Año2013
Volumen81
Número2
Páginas491-515
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jaarel/lft014
OpenAlexW2322588049
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas3

This article proposes that many Tibetan rituals are shaped by a language of creating, giving, and eating food. Drawing on a range of premodern texts and observation of a week-long Accomplishing Medicine (sman sgrub) ritual based on those texts, we explore ritualized food interactions from a narrative perspective. Through the creation, offering, and consumption of food, ritual participants, including Buddhas, deities, and other unseen beings, create and maintain variant identities and relationships with each other. Using a ritual tradition that crosses religious and medical domains in Tibet, we examine how food and eating honors, constructs, and maintains an appropriate and spatiotemporally situated community order with a gastronomic contract familiar to all participants

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