INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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This paper firstly explores the possibilities of a traditional method of map making within Tibetan Buddhism by examining how the religion constructs its distinct style of cartography not of the physical, but of the cosmological world. An instance where we find the religious intertwine with the physical and political is the representation of Tibet in the map of the Supine Demoness. As a visual text, this image carries within it several symbols that has opened it up to various levels of interpretations that are socially, culturally and politically motivated. As such, this paper will survey the discussions concerning the body of the Supine Demoness as a site of patriarchal violence and as the visual evidence of Yarlung empire’s influence in the 7th Century. This paper will also examine the cartographic elements in the map of the Supine Demoness as a visual guide to the hidden world called Pemako and the power that such myths hold in reconstructing the past that serves the motives of their inheritors in the present.
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Visual text, Culture, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist Cosmology
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"The Visual Text and the Map of the Supine Demoness", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no.700-703, April-2022, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2204084.pdf
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2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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