Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197533352.003.0007
C. Bell
Chapter 6 offers a discussion of the several monasteries and chapels that have strong connections to Nechung Monastery, and which form a larger ritual hegemony that reinforces the dominance of the Dalai Lamas’ state cult. These centers predominantly include institutions that have ties to other monasteries or are older than Nechung yet were brought into its liturgical and iconographic orbit, such as Meru Nyingpa, Gadong Monastery, Tsel Yangön, and Karmasha Chapel. Smaller chapels like Banakzhöl have more direct influence, but all of them evince an increase in ritual ties to the Five King Spirits, their retinue, and to the cult of Nechung more explicitly. This connection began in the seventeenth century and expanded in the following centuries under the administration of later Dalai Lamas.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197533352.003.0009
C. Bell
In one respect, the responsibility of Nechung and the responsibility of the Dalai Lama towards Tibet are the same, though we act in different ways. My task, that of leadership, is peaceful. His, in his capacity as protector and defender, is wrathful. However, although our functions are similar, my relationship with Nechung is that of commander to lieutenant; I never bow down to him. It is for Nechung to bow to the Dalai Lama. Yet we are also very close, friends almost. When I was small, it was touching. Nechung liked me a lot and always took great care of me. For example, if he noticed that I had dressed carelessly or improperly, he would come over and rearrange my shirt, adjust my robe and so on. But despite this sort of familiarity, Nechung has always shown respect for me....
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197533352.003.0005
C. Bell
Chapter 4 broadens its focus on Nechung Monastery’s ritual activities and annual calendar by exploring month-by-month the significant rites the monastic community historically performed every year. The New Year celebrations around the Jokhang Temple, the opera and musical performances at Drepung Monastery, and the Flower Offering Festival at Tsel Gungtang all illustrate the richness of Nechung’s liturgical involvement throughout the year, as well as its ties to other institutions and major Tibetan holidays. Moreover, these ritual practices and ceremonies reveal Nechung’s growing liturgical history, as the monastery accrued various rites from ritual masters, and in response to important events, throughout the centuries.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197533352.003.0006
C. Bell
Chapter 5 focuses on Nechung Monastery itself, offering a structural and symbolic exploration of the site’s architecture before addressing its often problematic historical evolution. The monastery possesses a rich and multivalent structure, with the courtyard murals illustrating the Five King Spirit’s retinue, the assembly hall providing images of the deities themselves along with important tantric figures, and the central chapel displaying statues of Nechung’s main protectors. Oral accounts historically associate the site with vivid prophetic pronouncements, but several discrepancies make a complete history difficult to ascertain. Regardless, today Nechung has been reestablished in exile, and both the historic Nechung of Lhasa and the new Nechung in India speak to the split liturgical activities of Pehar’s institution.
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