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A Buddhist Sensibility – Aesthetic Education at Tibet`s Mindröling Monastery: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Autor Dominique Townsend
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 mai 2021
Founded in 1676, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Dominique Townsend investigates the ritual, artistic, and cultural practices inculcated at Mindröling to demonstrate how early modern Tibetans integrated Buddhist and worldly activities through training in aesthetics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231194860
ISBN-10: 0231194862
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 163 x 237 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
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Notă biografică

Dominique Townsend is assistant professor of Buddhist studies at Bard College. She is also a poet and the author of Shantideva: How to Wake Up a Hero (2015), a book about Buddhism for children and families.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations and Transliterations
Introduction: Buddhist Aesthetics, the Cultivation of the Senses, and Beauty¿s Efficacy
1. Historical Background: Laying the Foundation for Mindröling
2. A Pleasure Grove for the Buddhist Senses: Mindröling Takes Root
3. Plucking the Strings: On Style, Letter Writing, and Relationships
4. Training the Senses: Aesthetic Education for Monastics
5. Taming the Aristocrats: Cultivating Early Modern Tibetan Literati and Bureaucrats
Epilogue: Destruction and Revival: The Next Generation
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index