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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主要作者: Townsend, Dominique (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New York : Columbia University Press [2021]
叢編:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/town19486
書本目錄:
  • 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.