A Buddhist sensibility : aesthetic education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery /

"Founded 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 ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Townsend, Dominique (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Temas:
Smin-grol-gling (Monastery : Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
Aesthetics > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Buddhism and art > China > Tibet Autonomous Region.
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders > Education > China > Tibet Autonomous Region.
Esthétique > Aspect religieux > Bouddhisme.
Bouddhisme et art > Chine > Région autonome du Tibet.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders > Education
Buddhism and art
Aesthetics > Religious aspects > Buddhism
History
China > Tibet Autonomous Region
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Buddhist aesthetics, the cultivation of the senses, and beauty's efficacy
  • Historical background : laying the foundation for Mindröling
  • A pleasure grove for the Buddhist senses : Mindröling takes root
  • Plucking the strings : on style, letter writing, and relationships
  • Training the senses : aesthetic education for monastics
  • Taming the aristocrats : cultivating early modern Tibetan Buddhist literati and bureaucrats
  • Epilogue: The next generation and beyond.

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