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Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet (South Asia Across the Disciplines) - Softcover

Buch 15 von 17: South Asia Across the Disciplines

Jansen, Berthe

 
9780520297005: Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520297008 ISBN 13: 9780520297005
Verlag: University of California Press, 2018

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The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca' yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions' influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Berthe Jansen is Professor of Tibetan Studies at the Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften, Leipzig University.

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"This work will be a great contribution to Tibetan studies. It will provide an invaluable resource for those interested in a richer picture of traditional Tibet and its monastic life. The book is also quite original, describing a number of aspects of Tibetan monasticism that are not well known. I have learned a number of facts that I ignored about Tibetan monasticism. Hence, I can say with great confidence that this book will be an important scholarly resource."—Georges Dreyfus, Jackson Professor of Religion, Williams College, author of The Sound of Two Hands Clapping 

"This book provides a welcome and much needed contribution to our understanding of Tibetan monasticism. While monastic institutions have long been recognized as hubs of Buddhist life in Tibet, this study provides an extensive and granular exploration of premodern Tibetan monasteries as sites of community organization and integration, and as mediators of religious power."—Andrew Quintman, author of The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa
 
 

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"This work will be a great contribution to Tibetan studies. It will provide an invaluable resource for those interested in a richer picture of traditional Tibet and its monastic life. The book is also quite original, describing a number of aspects of Tibetan monasticism that are not well known. I have learned a number of facts that I ignored about Tibetan monasticism. Hence, I can say with great confidence that this book will be an important scholarly resource."—Georges Dreyfus, Jackson Professor of Religion, Williams College, author of The Sound of Two Hands Clapping 

"This book provides a welcome and much needed contribution to our understanding of Tibetan monasticism. While monastic institutions have long been recognized as hubs of Buddhist life in Tibet, this study provides an extensive and granular exploration of premodern Tibetan monasteries as sites of community organization and integration, and as mediators of religious power."—Andrew Quintman, author of The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa
 
 

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520297008
ISBN 13 
9780520297005
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
298
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