Tibetan Genealogy, kinship line and reincarnation succession: A religio-political study of the Bar Brug-pa bKa-brgyud-pa sect between the 15th and 16th centuries
Final Report Abstract
The results of the research were based upon a long row of partly under-studied material and text sources. The outcome of the inquiries demonstrates the rise and vicissitude a clan-based monastic institution. The introduction of the reincarnation system in the late of the 15th century was to give the ’Brug-pa school considerable impetus, a renewal necessary for the school allowing it to develop rapidly in South Tibet and in the Himalayan region in the 16th century. During this period of incessant growth, the school contributed greatly to the doctrinal development of different aspects of the Tibetan religio-political presuppositions and theoretical ideologies behind the systematic renewal of the reincarnation system in question, but also to the revitalisation of the pilgrimage to a number of areas in South Tibet. The evolution and transformation of the school during this period had a profound impact on the political and religious geography in those parts of Tibet.
Publications
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“The Invention of Reincarnation Lineage of ‘rGyal dbang ’Brug chen’”, in Seiji Kumagai (ed.), Buddhism, Culture and Society in Bhutan, Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2018: 35–67
Per K. Sørensen and Haoran Hou
