Discipline and Debate (eBook)

The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery

Michael Lempert (Autor)

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2012
238 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95201-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: books for reluctant readers • Buddhism • controlling your emotions • creating world peace • disciplinary practices • easy to read • engaging • evolution of monk traditions • History • how to be more calm • learning about religion • learning while reading • leisure reads • monk history • natural rights of humans • Page Turner • Religion • students and teachers • study of language and social interaction • Tibetan history • understanding buddhism • vacation reads • what is a monastery • what is a monk • who is dalai lama
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95201-4 / 0520952014
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95201-0 / 9780520952010