Discipline and Debate
The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace, but this does not reflect how monks learn their vocation. This book shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformers-like the Dalai Lama-adopt liberal and democratic ideals, such as natural rights and individual autonomy. In the first in-depth account of disciplinary practices at a Tibetan monastery in India, Michael Lempert looks closely at everyday education rites-from debate to reprimand and corporal punishment. His analysis explores how the idioms of violence inscribed i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-95201-0
- EAN: 9780520952010
- Produktnummer: 21596081
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 238 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'173 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Michael Lempert is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
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