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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lempert, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders--Education--India.

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders--Education--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Liberalism (Religion)--India.

Liberalism (Religion).

Violence--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Violence.

Discipline--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Discipline.

Tibetans--India--Religion.

Tibetans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

MAP

FIGURES

TABLES

Acknowledgments

Technical Note on Transcription and Research Methods

TRANSCRIPTION ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

Introduction. Liberal Sympathies

1. Dissensus by Design

2. Debate as a Rite of Institution

3. Debate as a Diasporic Pedagogy

4. Public Reprimand Is Serious Theatre

5. Affected Signs, Sincere Subjects

Conclusion. The Liberal Subject, in Pieces

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613587206

9781280491979

1280491973

9780520952010

0520952014

OCLC:

794328503