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100	1		_aPitkin, Annabella, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRenunciation and longing : _bthe life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist Saint / _cAnnabella Pitkin.
264		1	_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2022.
300			_axxviii, 286 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBuddhism and modernity
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama wandered like a beggar across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters and living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this ragged beggar-yogi became a revered teacher of the current Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At his death in 1977, he was mourned by Himalayan nuns, Tibetan lamas, and American meditators alike. The myriad surviving stories about Khunu Lama reveal unexpected forms of Tibetan Buddhism, shedding new light on questions of secularism, religion, and what it means to be modern. In Beggar Modern, Annabella Pitkin explores the emotionally charged Tibetan Buddhist imaginaries of renunciation, devotion, and the teacher-student lineage relationship as resources for Tibetan Buddhist approaches to modernity. By examining narrative accounts of the life of a remarkable twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist and focusing on his remembered identity as a renunciant bodhisattva, Pitkin illuminates Tibetan and Himalayan practices of memory, reinvention, and mourning. Refuting longstanding caricatures of Tibetan Buddhist communities as unable to be modern because of their religious commitments, Pitkin shows instead how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Tibetan Buddhists have used precisely the cultural resources that connect them to their past as vital tools for creating new futures"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	0	0	_aKhunu Lama, _cRinpoche, _d1895-1977.
650		0	_aBuddhism _zChina _zTibet Autonomous Region _vBiography.
650		0	_aBuddhist saints _vBiography.
830		0	_aBuddhism and modernity.
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