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Looking At The Evolution Of Tibetan Religious Faith Through "Fire Offering" Ritual In "Gesar"

Posted on:2010-09-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C J GaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278951672Subject:Historical philology
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This article discusses that "fire offering" in "King Gesar" is an unique a Tibetan cultural form.As a folk culture,it not only reflects people's spiritual world,but also reflects different historical periods of the Tibetan social system,the production and living,level of education and the development and changes in customs.This paper gives multi-dimensional look at and function exploration of origin of cultural system of "fire offering" rituals and effectively organizes the evolution,development and creation of "fire offering" ritual in the process of Tibetan history.This article consists of four chapters and the preface mainly details the reason why such a topic has been chosen for this article and research methods to be employed and finally relevant research results both domestically and internationally.Second chapter is mainly centered on talking about the origin of "fire offering" ritual.Firstly it has given a necessary explanation to the concept of "fire offering" ritual.Secondly it well organized the social background that fed the birth of "offering offering" ritual.Lastly it concluded the analysis of its ritual origin.Third chapter systematically described the evolution of Tibetan religious faith in "fire offering" ritual.This chapter is divided into two sub-sections:1) exploring the function of cultural system of spiritual beings in "fire offering" ritual.2)deepening the understanding of "fire offering" rituals' classification and thereafter summing up both of these sub-sections.Forth chapter roughly talks about the benefit purpose that is behind this ritual.Starting with ways in which these rituals were performed in primitive religion and its reflection in "King Gesar",this chapter gives an account of Tibetan people's ideology after the introduction of Buddhism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fire offering, Worship, Fire, White-festival, Red-festival, God of War
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