Discipline and debate : the language of violence in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

By:

Lempert, Michael

Material type: Text

TextSeries: ATLA Special Series. 0 ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520952010
0520952014
1280491973
9781280491979
9786613587206
6613587206

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Discipline and Debate : The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery.DDC classification:

294.3/5697 23

LOC classification:

BQ7758.I4

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of 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; Notes; References; Index.

Summary: 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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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.