Longevity Practices and Concepts in Tibet: A Study of Long-Life Practices in the Dudjom Tradition
Research program: Culture and Representation
This project, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, is a study of Tibetan concepts and practices relating to health and long life. We are studying a representative body of texts from the 19th and 20th centuries (the Chimé Sogt'ig or “immortal Life-Essence” practices within the Dudjom tradition) and working with contemporary scholars and practitioners within the tradition to establish how this tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism understands issues of longevity and good health and what techniques and practices are used to achieve them. We are particularly interested in how mind, body and the social and wider environment enter into concepts of longevity and health within these texts and practices.
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