Nicolas Sihlé
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas Sihlé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sihlé |
| SIGNATURE | SIHLÉ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Himalayan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2630-7559 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why Hair Needs to Be Long
Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance to keeping their hair long. The importance of tantrists’ hair is particularly striking in Repkong county (northeastern Tibet), which is famous for its large number of tantrists, many of whom wear dreadlocks wound around their heads. This study of the Repkong tantrists’ capillary culture will argue that their hair, at the intersection between the bod…
Assessing and Adapting Rituals That Reproduce a Collectivity
Tantrists, non-monastic religious specialists of Tibetan Buddhism, constitute a diffuse, non-centralized form of clergy. In an area like Repkong, where they present a high demographic density, large-scale supra-local annual ritual gatherings of tantrists are virtually synonymous with, and crucial for, their collective existence. In the largest of these rituals, the 'elders' meeting' is in effect an institutionalized procedure for evaluating the r…
Introduction
International audience
Introduction
This introduction draws attention to recent, renewed engagements with comparison in anthropology. This special issue-the first published collective endeavour to contribute to a comparative anthropology of Buddhism-constitutes an attempt to examine collectively the comparative potential of a major anthropological theme, the gift, in Buddhist contexts. One of the distinctive features of this set of papers is to consider the 'gift' within a somewhat…
Towards a Comparative Anthropology of the Buddhist Gift (and Other Transfers)
The aim of this essay is threefold. I would like first to propose a more refined choice of analytical vocabulary for the study of Buddhist giving and related practices, by taking into consideration recent contributions by Testart and F. Weber, who have forcefully argued that the Maussian category of 'the gift' is in need of conceptual clarification: we need a typology of forms of 'transfers', to use Testart's term. I will argue for the analytical…
Rituels bouddhistes de pouvoir et de violence
Violence occupies a paradoxical place in Tibetan tantric Buddhism. Although the ethical imperative of not harming beings is absolutely central, there is also a darker face to tantric ritual activity, a face of power and violence: the repelling and destruction of harmful agents. An entire ritual machinery is deployed to ward off or kill hostile demons, or sometimes enemies of indeterminate nature — agressive magic is not absent. Wrathful protectiv…
The Navel of the Demoness
International audience
Written Texts at the Juncture of the Local and the Globa
Towards a Comparative Anthropology of the Buddhist Gift (and Other Transfers)
The aim of this essay is threefold. I would like first to propose a more refined choice of analytical vocabulary for the study of Buddhist giving and related practices, by taking into consideration recent contributions by Testart and F. Weber, who have forcefully argued that the Maussian category of 'the gift' is in need of conceptual clarification: we need a typology of forms of 'transfers', to use Testart's term. I will argue for the analytical…
Introduction
International audience
Introduction
This introduction draws attention to recent, renewed engagements with comparison in anthropology. This special issue-the first published collective endeavour to contribute to a comparative anthropology of Buddhism-constitutes an attempt to examine collectively the comparative potential of a major anthropological theme, the gift, in Buddhist contexts. One of the distinctive features of this set of papers is to consider the 'gift' within a somewhat…
Assessing and Adapting Rituals That Reproduce a Collectivity
Tantrists, non-monastic religious specialists of Tibetan Buddhism, constitute a diffuse, non-centralized form of clergy. In an area like Repkong, where they present a high demographic density, large-scale supra-local annual ritual gatherings of tantrists are virtually synonymous with, and crucial for, their collective existence. In the largest of these rituals, the 'elders' meeting' is in effect an institutionalized procedure for evaluating the r…
Written Texts at the Juncture of the Local and the Globa
The Navel of the Demoness
International audience
Rituels bouddhistes de pouvoir et de violence
Violence occupies a paradoxical place in Tibetan tantric Buddhism. Although the ethical imperative of not harming beings is absolutely central, there is also a darker face to tantric ritual activity, a face of power and violence: the repelling and destruction of harmful agents. An entire ritual machinery is deployed to ward off or kill hostile demons, or sometimes enemies of indeterminate nature — agressive magic is not absent. Wrathful protectiv…
Introduction
This introduction draws attention to recent, renewed engagements with comparison in anthropology. This special issue-the first published collective endeavour to contribute to a comparative anthropology of Buddhism-constitutes an attempt to examine collectively the comparative potential of a major anthropological theme, the gift, in Buddhist contexts. One of the distinctive features of this set of papers is to consider the 'gift' within a somewhat…
Towards a Comparative Anthropology of the Buddhist Gift (and Other Transfers)
The aim of this essay is threefold. I would like first to propose a more refined choice of analytical vocabulary for the study of Buddhist giving and related practices, by taking into consideration recent contributions by Testart and F. Weber, who have forcefully argued that the Maussian category of 'the gift' is in need of conceptual clarification: we need a typology of forms of 'transfers', to use Testart's term. I will argue for the analytical…
Introduction
International audience
Why Hair Needs to Be Long
Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance to keeping their hair long. The importance of tantrists’ hair is particularly striking in Repkong county (northeastern Tibet), which is famous for its large number of tantrists, many of whom wear dreadlocks wound around their heads. This study of the Repkong tantrists’ capillary culture will argue that their hair, at the intersection between the bod…
Assessing and Adapting Rituals That Reproduce a Collectivity
Tantrists, non-monastic religious specialists of Tibetan Buddhism, constitute a diffuse, non-centralized form of clergy. In an area like Repkong, where they present a high demographic density, large-scale supra-local annual ritual gatherings of tantrists are virtually synonymous with, and crucial for, their collective existence. In the largest of these rituals, the 'elders' meeting' is in effect an institutionalized procedure for evaluating the r…
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