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Journal Article
GENDER AND PERFORMANCE: THE BUCHEN OF PIN VALLEY, SPITI
2025
Overview
This paper investigates the Buchen tradition of oral narration and enactment of life stories associated with popular Tibetan Buddhist personalities and the ways in which gender and sexuality are embedded in such performances. As an exclusively male tradition, the Buchen and their troupe perform the parts of both male and female characters in rituals and in their dramatization of edifying religious stories. An accidental discovery of a video clip displaying a group of women impersonating the Buchen in Mane village, Spiti, provides an opportunity to study how certain characteristics are marked by gender roles in this society and what the implications of cross-dressing entail for both categories. An interdisciplinary approach has been employed to understand this representation of gender in the larger context of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and culture.
