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Discipline and Debate

Name: Discipline and Debate
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 04459399
Price: 88.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Lempert
ISBN: 9780520269460

Michael Lempert

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04459399

Publishers University of California Press, April 2012

The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace,... Full description

Libristo code: 04459399

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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.