An Enigma of Tibetan Leu (le’u): Ritual, Ritual Lore, and Divinities of Foetus

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

An Enigma of Tibetan Leu (le’u): Ritual, Ritual Lore, and Divinities of Foetus

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper attempts to contribute to better understanding the rather enigmatic term leu (le&apos;u) that figures in Buddhist chronicles, Bonpo literature, and is known locally in the region of eastern Bhutan and in the Minshan mountain range in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau. It appears as a designation of certain non-Buddhist lore, rituals, texts, and ritual specialists, but it is argued here that it was commonly associated with certain divinities in early sources. The first part of the paper reiterates the existing research on the topic published by R. A. Stein, Ngawang Gyatso, and Toni Huber. This is followed by the second part, where examples of mentions of certain leu or legu (le gu) in the Bonpo texts dated mostly from between the 12th and 14th centuries will be presented. The conclusion then offers a hypothesis concerning the connection of leu divinities with human foetus and fertility, and identification of them with nyen (gnyan) and lu (klu) spirits based on both texts and anthropological data from the north-eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. Part of this paper was originally presented at a conference held at Tsinghua University in 2021 entitled &quot;Buddhist and Eurasian Philology in Memoriam of Professor Tschen Yin-Koh.&quot;

Název v anglickém jazyce

An Enigma of Tibetan Leu (le’u): Ritual, Ritual Lore, and Divinities of Foetus

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper attempts to contribute to better understanding the rather enigmatic term leu (le&apos;u) that figures in Buddhist chronicles, Bonpo literature, and is known locally in the region of eastern Bhutan and in the Minshan mountain range in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau. It appears as a designation of certain non-Buddhist lore, rituals, texts, and ritual specialists, but it is argued here that it was commonly associated with certain divinities in early sources. The first part of the paper reiterates the existing research on the topic published by R. A. Stein, Ngawang Gyatso, and Toni Huber. This is followed by the second part, where examples of mentions of certain leu or legu (le gu) in the Bonpo texts dated mostly from between the 12th and 14th centuries will be presented. The conclusion then offers a hypothesis concerning the connection of leu divinities with human foetus and fertility, and identification of them with nyen (gnyan) and lu (klu) spirits based on both texts and anthropological data from the north-eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. Part of this paper was originally presented at a conference held at Tsinghua University in 2021 entitled &quot;Buddhist and Eurasian Philology in Memoriam of Professor Tschen Yin-Koh.&quot;

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

BUGU-BUJIN-BUZHONG-BUXI ZHI XUE： JINIAN CHENYINKE XIYU YU FOJIAO YUWENXUE YANJIU WENJI/ Learning that is neither modern nor ancient, neither Chinese nor Western: Collection of reaserch papers in memoriam of professor Tschen YIn-Koh

ISBN

978-7-5475-2397-1

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Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

357-382

Název nakladatele

Zhongshu, Shanghai Century Publishing Group

Místo vydání

Shanghai

Místo konání akce

Peking, Tsinghua University

Datum konání akce

15. 10. 2021

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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