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The Development of Tibetan Cultural and Religious Identity among Tibetans Living outside of Historical Tibet
Pavlátová, Andrea ; Blahůtová Kavanová, Klára (referee) ; Havlíček, Tomáš (advisor)
The Development of Tibetan Cultural and Religious Identity among Tibetans Living outside of Historical Tibet The topic of my thesis was to find out changes in Tibetan society inside Tibet and in Tibetan exile in last 50. years and how do changes help to progress social capital. Inside Tibet is problem with high percent of nonliterary and high percent of incoming Han people, which cause that Tibetan people are getting on the edge of society, because they didn't have developed their human potential. The main problem is that Tibetan people don't know Chinese language well and this language is becoming more useful for daily life in Tibetan autonomous region. Tibetans, who are very religious, don't have opportunity to practice Tibetan Buddhism under communistic rule of Chine. Tibetans have to renounce His Holiness dalajlama and deny part of their Tibetan identity. Those reasons influence them to escape into exile. The second part of my thesis is concerned to describe push and pull factors of migration. As I found in materials, the main reasons to escape into exile were political, religion, education, economical problems and renounce dalajlama. In my research, Tibetan didn't divide those reasons to those categories, because they think of those problems in holistic way. The last part of thesis in...
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Padmasambhava: life, doctrine, iconography
PELTAN, Václav
This thesis deals with the Indian master Padmasambhava also known as Guru Rinpoche. In the 8th century he came to Tibet at the invitation of King Thisong Decän. He had the role of demons tamer. Thus he helped to establish Buddhism in this country. The first part is devoted to his life surrounded with many legends which contain very different information. The second part presents his teaching based on the Indian Vajrayana. Since his activities were very influential and he reached great fame, he has been portrayed a lot mainly in Tibet. Therefore, the last part is devoted to his iconography, especially the eight iconographic forms of Padmasambhava.
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Meditation practice in Tibetan Buddhism (Comparision selected schools in Czech Republic intent on meditation experience)
BOHOŇKOVÁ, Denisa
The work deals with the issue of Tibetan Buddhism and is divided into two parts, the theoretical and practical. The first chapter is devoted to the creation and deve-lopment of Tibetan Buddhist, its teachings and the four main schools. The second chapter describes the spread of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. The chapter also contains a description of operating centers, schools and organizations in the Czech Republic. The third chapter focuses on description and explanation of meditation and meditation practices that are typical of Tibetan Buddhism. The practical part is devoted to meditation experiences and how they are perceived in everyday life. The practical part includes a transcript of several interviews with active Buddhists from various Buddhist centers in the Czech Republic. The end of the chapter is a commentary and assessment of interviews.
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