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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTownsend, Dominique
_eautore
245 1 2 _aA Buddhist Sensibility :
_bAesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery /
_cDominique Townsend.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource
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490 0 _aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tA Note on Translations and Transliterations --
_tIntroduction: Buddhist Aesthetics, the Cultivation of the Senses, and Beauty’s Efficacy --
_tONE. Historical Background: Laying the Foundation for Mindröling --
_tTWO. A Pleasure Grove for the Buddhist Senses: Mindröling Takes Root --
_tTHREE. Plucking the Strings: On Style, Letter Writing, and Relationships --
_tFOUR Training the Senses Aesthetic Education for Monastics --
_tFIVE Taming the Aristocrats Cultivating Early Modern Tibetan Literati and Bureaucrats --
_tEPILOGUE Destruction and Revival The Next Generation --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFounded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and institutionalize a worldview rooted in Buddhist philosophy, engaging with contemporaries from across Tibetan Buddhist schools while crystallizing what it meant to be part of their own Nyingma school. At the monastery, ritual performance, meditation, renunciation, and training in the skills of a bureaucrat or member of the literati went hand in hand. Studying at Mindröling entailed training the senses and cultivating the objects of the senses through poetry, ritual music, monastic dance, visual arts, and incense production, as well as medicine and astrology.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. Considering laypeople as well as monastics and women as well as men, A Buddhist Sensibility sheds new light on the forms of knowledge valued in early modern Tibetan societies, especially among the ruling classes. Townsend traces how tastes, values, and sensibilities were cultivated and spread, showing what it meant for a person, lay or monastic, to be deemed well educated. Combining historical and literary analysis with fieldwork in Tibetan Buddhist communities, this book reveals how monastic institutions work as centers of cultural production beyond the boundaries of what is conventionally deemed Buddhist.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650 0 _aAesthetics
_xReligious aspects
_xBuddhism.
650 0 _aBuddhism and art
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region.
650 0 _aBuddhist monasticism and religious orders
_xEducation
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/town19486
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231551052
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