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Patrul Rinpoche on Self-Cultivation: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Life-Advice |
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Schapiro, Joshua (撰)
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| Date | 2012 |
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| Pages | 270 |
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| Publisher | Harvard University |
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https://www.harvard.edu/
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| Location | Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Degree | doctor |
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| Institution | Harvard University |
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| Department | Religion |
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| Advisor | Gyatso, Janet |
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| Publication year | 2012 |
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| Abstract | Buddhist forms of “ethical advice”—instructions that address life’s problems and offer methods for alleviating them—are widespread in Buddhist literary history. This dissertation studies four such works, all written by the nineteenth-century Tibetan teacher Dza Patrul Rinpoche (Rdza dpal sprul O rgyan 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po, 1808-1877). I provide a rhetorical analysis of these compositions and endeavor to show how each aspires to reach outside of itself to act on its respective audience. The compositions do so, I argue, by deploying special literary devices that encourage their audiences to invest themselves, emotionally and imaginatively, in the practices of self-development that the works themselves advocate. The aim of the project is to use Patrul’s writing as a case study to suggest modes of analysis that can offer us insight into the ways in which specially designed modes of writing enable moral self-cultivation. The dissertation specifically addresses the relationship between the recurring themes of singularity, performativity and reflexivity as they appear in Patrul’s advice writings. I argue that these compositions employ discursive devices that play on their audience’s feelings and expectations, aspiring to generate affective responses that range from utter hopelessness to profound relief. They employ expositional strategies designed to compel their audiences to imagine familiar practices anew. Finally, their performative character calls attention to the status of Patrul, the model author, as a singularly capable and skillful teacher. The reflexive nature of Patrul’s works thereby serves to provoke the implied audience’s imagination about “Patrul” the heroically talented teacher. These self-reflexive writings also act as devices for Patrul’s own self-transformation. They are sites of imagination, opportunities for Patrul to enact a self-creation via the medium of advice writing. Patrul’s compositions not only aspire to work on their audience. They, in and of themselves, constitute transformative work for Patrul. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Patrul Rinpoche and Advice 34
Chapter 2: The Ma!i—Patrul and Pathos 91
Chapter 3: The Singular—Reflexivity of Form & Content 120
Chapter 4: Confident Eloquence—Reflexivity of Teacher & Text 166
Chapter 5: Patrul’s Person—From Authorial Voice to Historical Author 209
Appendix I: Translations 229
Appendix II: Niti!"stra & Lekha in the Tibetan Tanjur 248
Appendix III: Mipham’s Overview of Patrul’s Collected Works 252
Appendix IV: The Path in The Discourse Good in the Beginning, Middle, & End 254
Bibliography 257 |
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| Created date | 2021.12.12 |
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