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Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture : an Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning.

Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern re...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liberman, Kenneth, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an interactional tool to organize their.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (338 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index.
ISBN:9780742576865
0742576868
0742527441
9780742527447
1299453333
9781299453333