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Discipline and Debate - The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery (Paperback)
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Discipline and Debate - The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery (Paperback)
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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.
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