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Discipline and debate
2012
Overview
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 in these socialization rites help produce educated, moral persons but in ways that trouble Tibetans who aspire to modernity. Bringing the study of language and social interaction to our understanding of Buddhism for the first time, Lempert shows and why liberal ideals are being acted out by monks in India, offering a provocative alternative view of liberalism as a globalizing discourse.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ Buddhism
/ Buddhist monasticism and religious orders
/ Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Education -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
/ Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Education -- India
/ China
/ Cultural
/ Discipline -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
/ Dissent
/ engaging
/ evolution of monk traditions
/ Exile
/ history
/ India
/ LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
/ Liberalism (Religion) -- India
/ Religion
/ RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
/ study of language and social interaction
/ Tibetans
/ Tibetans -- India -- Religion
/ Violence
ISBN
0520269462, 9780520269460, 9780520269477, 0520269470
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