Politics of Tranquility
The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet
Seiten
2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7880-3 (ISBN)
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7880-3 (ISBN)
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Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar.
Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. * .about.com *
Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context. * .about.com *
Yasmin Cho is an Earl S. Johnson Instructor in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and an affiliated scholar in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Introduction
Becoming a Buddhist Nun in Post-Mao Tibe
Building an Encampment
Intimate Things
New Gestures
Cabbage, Tofu, and Sausage
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Maps; 18 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 907 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5017-7880-3 / 1501778803 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-7880-3 / 9781501778803 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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