(Re)imagining nationalism: Identity and representation in the Tibetan diaspora of South Asia<sup>1</sup>

Anand, Dibyesh

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“…Tibetan culture as such has not been listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and many scholars, activists and the Dalai Lama regard it as being threatened (see discussion e.g. Barnett 2001;Lopez 1998;Anand 2000). China has been accused of utilizing its cultural and natural 'resources', depoliticizing them, and then prof iting from contested heritage sites under the guise of development and sustainability (Winter and Daly 2011: 19).…”

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Chinese Heritage in the making: experiences, negotiations and contestations

2018

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. generous financial support from the Swedish Research Council and the Birgit Rausing language programme in Chinese at Lund University, with the latter also providing support for some of the proofreading. Moreover, we thank our editors at IIAS and Amsterdam University Press for their support and helpful feedback. Finally, we are grateful for the comments made by two anonymous reviewers.

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Chinese Heritage in the making: experiences, negotiations and contestations

2018

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…Anderson (1991) further avers that the instilling of nationalist ideology is achieved through apparatuses such as the mass media, the educational system and administrative regulations. In the process of (re)imagining, the nation (re)constructs its sense of nationhood and national identity continuously (Anand 2000;Koh 2005).…”

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(Re)imagining the Muslim Identity in Singapore

Tan

2008

Studies Ethnicity & National

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This paper discusses how the Singapore government attempted to (re)imagine the Muslim identity in Singapore based on the crisis of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) arrests in 2002. The paper argues that the government sought to resolve and manage the crisis using the combined apparatuses of the mass media, education and administrative regulations. The paper further analyses the constraints and challenges faced by the government in the process of (re)constructing and sustaining the Singapore Muslim identity. The attempt by the Singapore government provides a useful example of how the government of a multi‐ethnic, multi‐religious and multi‐lingual country has responded to internal terrorist threats by (re)imagining the Muslim identity, and the problems and controversies such a (re)imaging process generates.

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“…When looking at the Tibetan versions of the MTK precious pill leaflets, the predominant Tibetan term that in the English version is translated as "rejuvenation" is chülen. 55 Chü (bcud) has many meanings and can be translated, for example, as taste, essence, elixir, sap, moisture, potency, nu- Aschoff and Tashigang 2001, 2004. 54 Aschoff and Tashigang 2001.…”

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Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics

Gerke

2017

Hist. Sci. South Asia

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Tibetan precious pills are frequently attributed with a variety of efficacies, from “magical” powers, prevention of poisoning and infectious diseases, protection from harmful spirits and exposure to diseases while travelling, to rejuvenating and prolonging life through clearing the senses and promoting strength and vigor. They are prescribed as strong medicines for severe diseases, but are also advertised as rejuvenating tonics for the healthy. This paper explores the rejuvenating qualities attributed to precious pills in terms of how they are currently advertised, how rejuvenation is and has been explained in Tibetan works on precious pills, and how Tibetan physicians understand these attributes. How do these domains interact and refer to each other? I compare aspects of rejuvenation in precious pill formulas with contemporary presentations of precious pills online and on published leaflets given out to patients in India and elsewhere. In Tibetan medical texts certain precious pills that contain the complex and processed mercury-sulfide ash called tsotel in addition to a large variety of other medicinal substances are presented as “precious pills” or rinchen rilbu, and only some of those are said to have rejuvenating effects on the body; most are primarily prescribed for specific diseases. The practice of giving precious pills to the healthy emerges more prominently in eighteenth to nineteenth century manuals on administering precious pills (Czaja 2015), which parallels the establishment of influential medical and monastic networks that promoted the making of tsotel and precious pills. I argue that precious pills have more recently widened their specific therapeutic target beyond that of medicine into becoming popular pills for rejuvenation, even if they do not contain tsotel, as part of pharmaceutical commodification. I also show how presentations of precious pills as “rejuvenating” are deeply linked to their availability.

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(Re)imagining nationalism: Identity and representation in the Tibetan diaspora of South Asia¹

Cited by 58 publications

References 10 publications

Chinese Heritage in the making: experiences, negotiations and contestations

Chinese Heritage in the making: experiences, negotiations and contestations

(Re)imagining the Muslim Identity in Singapore

Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics

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(Re)imagining nationalism: Identity and representation in the Tibetan diaspora of South Asia1

Cited by 58 publications

References 10 publications

Chinese Heritage in the making: experiences, negotiations and contestations

Chinese Heritage in the making: experiences, negotiations and contestations

(Re)imagining the Muslim Identity in Singapore

Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics

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