- AutorIn
- Dagmar Schwerk
- Titel
- Drawing Lines in a Mandala
- Untertitel
- A Sketch of Boundaries Between Religion and Politics in Bhutan
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-361429
- Erschienen in
- Working paper series of the HCAS 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
- Bandnummer
- 12
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- ISSN
- 2700-5518
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.36730/2020.1.msbwbm.12
- Abstract (EN)
- In the first half of the 17th century, three major Buddhist governments that combined a twofold religious and political structure under a Buddhist ruler were established in the Tibetan cultural area (hereafter: Joint Twofold System of Governance).1 In 1625/26,2 Bhutan was united under the rule of a charismatic Tibetan Buddhist master, Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594– ca. 1651; hereafter: Zhabdrung); Tibet and Sikkim followed, both in 1642 – although with significant differences in their respective institutionalisation. The Bhutanese government as a constitutional monarchy with a Buddhist king is the only one among the three still in existence today. Bhutan’s transformation into a modern society along the lines of this Joint Twofold System of Governance under the conditions of non-colonialisation but with crucial and intense encounters of its societal elites with Western and Asian forms of modernity and secularity represents, therefore, a unique case in point.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Säkularität, Religion, Säkularisation, Buddhismus
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- secularity, religion, modernity, differentiation, distinction, Buddhist
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 200
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Kolleg-Forschergruppe 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- eingereichte Version / Preprint
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-361429
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 14.11.2019
- Dokumenttyp
- Forschungsbericht
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch