Paper’s patrons: digitisation, new media and the sponsorship of sacred Tibetan books in California

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2019-10-02 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2020.1787474
A. Binning
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ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the sacred text-production work of a Nyingma Buddhist group based in Berkeley, California. It unpacks their selective engagement with the tools afforded to them by digitisation and new media. Digitisation projects – appearing in growing numbers – offer a powerful resource for the re-assembly of Tibetan Buddhist textual collections scattered in the political upheaval of recent decades. Yet the meeting place between the digital and the sacred is sometimes contested in this context where sacred text is an embodiment of the Buddha’s speech. This paper argues that the choice to print ink-and-paper texts is more than a simple rehearsal of tradition and in fact demands alternative forms of engagement with the potential offered by media tools. It explores how the moral invectives contained within sacred Tibetan texts become reshaped through the prisms of contemporary media and the American sponsorship landscape.
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报纸的赞助人:数字化、新媒体和对加州藏传圣典的赞助
摘要:本文主要研究位于加利福尼亚州伯克利的宁玛佛教团体的圣文制作工作。它将他们的选择性参与与数字化和新媒体提供给他们的工具相结合。越来越多的数字化项目为重新组装分散在近几十年政治动荡中的藏传佛教文本集提供了强大的资源。然而,在这种情况下,数字和神圣之间的交汇点有时会受到质疑,因为神圣文本是佛陀演讲的体现。本文认为,选择印刷墨水和纸质文本不仅仅是对传统的简单预演,事实上,还需要利用媒体工具提供的潜力进行替代形式的参与。它探讨了神圣的西藏文本中包含的道德谩骂是如何通过当代媒体和美国赞助景观的棱镜而被重塑的。
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