The sound of two hands clapping : the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk
Record details
- ISBN: 9781597349079
- ISBN: 1597349070
- ISBN: 9780520232600
- ISBN: 0520232607
- ISBN: 9780520232594
- ISBN: 0520232593
- ISBN: 9780585468815
- ISBN: 0585468818
- ISBN: 0520928245
- ISBN: 9780520928244
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 445 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Berkeley, Calif : University of California Press, ©2003.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-417) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | PART I. THE CONTEXT -- Tibetan Buddhism: a brief historical overview -- Tibetan monasticism -- Becoming a monk: teacher and discipline -- PART II. TIBETAN SCHOLASTIC PRACTICES -- Literacy and memorization -- General structure of the Tibetan curriculum -- Two curricular models -- Scholasticism and orality: myth and reality -- Commentary and meditation -- Supplement: hermeneutical or deconstructive? -- Debate as practice -- Debate in the curriculum -- Is debate a mode of inquiry? -- PART III. REFLECTIONS -- Rationality and spirit cult -- Limits of the inquiry -- Conclusion: past and future uncertainties. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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