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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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2021]
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| סדרה: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/town19486 |
תוכן הענינים:
- 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.