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Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
Author Lempert, Michael (著)
Date2012.04.30
Pages238
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publisher Url https://www.ucpress.edu/
LocationCalifornia, US [加利福尼亞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
KeywordDalai Lama; Tibet; Buddhism; monks; monasteries; Tibetans; India; liberalism; discipline; debate
AbstractThe 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.
Table of contentsFront Matter
Copyright Page
Dedication
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Technical Note on Transcription and Research Methods
Introduction: Liberal Sympathies

Part One Debate
1 Dissensus by Design
2 Debate as a Rite of Institution
3 Debate as a Diasporic Pedagogy

Part Two Discipline
4 Public Reprimand Is Serious Theatre
5 Affected Signs, Sincere Subjects

Conclusion: The Liberal Subject, in Pieces
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End Matter
Notes
References
Index
ISBN0520269470; 9780520269477 (Paperback)
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