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Discipline and debate : the language of violence in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

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 Da...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lempert, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
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