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Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emothin in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism) [1 New edition] |
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Samuels, Jeffrey
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| Date | 2010.06 |
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| Pages | 192 |
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| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
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| Publisher Url |
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/
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| Location | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | 1 edition |
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| Abstract | An idealized view of the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk might be described
according to the doctrinal demand for emotional detachment and, ultimately,
the cessation of all desire. Yet monks are also enjoined to practice compassion,
a powerful emotion and equally lofty ideal, and live with every other human
feeling─love, hate, jealousy, ambition─while relating to other monks and
the lay community. In this important ethnography of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Samuels takes an unprecedented look at how emotion determines and influences the commitments that laypeople and monastics make to each other and to the Buddhist religion in general. By focusing on multimoment
histories, Samuels highlights specific junctures in which ideas about
recruitment, vocation, patronage, and institution-building are dynamically
negotiated and refined. Positing a nexus between aesthetics and affect, he
illustrates not only how aesthetic responses trigger certain emotions, but
also how personal and shared emotions, at the local level, shape notions of
beauty.
Samuels uses the voices of informants to reveal the delicately negotiated
character of lay-monastic relations and temple management. In the fields of
religion and Buddhist studies there has been a growing recognition of the
need to examine affective dimensions of religion. His work breaks new ground in
that it answers questions about Buddhist emotions and the constitutive roles they play in social life and religious practice through a close, poignant look at small-scale temple and social networks. Throughout, Samuels makes the case
for the need to account for emotions in making intelligible the behavior of
religious participants and practitioners.
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork that includes numerous interviews as well
as an examination of written and visual sources, Attracting the
Heart conveys the manner in which Buddhists describe their own histories,
experiences, and encounters as they relate to the formation and continuation of Buddhist monastic culture in contemporary Sri Lanka. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion, Buddhist studies, anthropology, and South and Southeast Asian studies. |
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| ISBN | 9780824833855 (hc); 0824833856 (hc) |
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| Hits | 358 |
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| Created date | 2010.12.17 |
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| Modified date | 2011.05.05 |
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