261. Book Launch: A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery
- Author:
- Dominique Townsend, Janet Gyatso, and Lauran Hartley
- Publication Date:
- 10-2021
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Abstract:
- A Buddhist Sensibility sheds new light on the forms of knowledge valued in early modern Tibetan societies, especially among the ruling classes. Townsend traces how tastes, values, and sensibilities were cultivated and spread by Tibetan Buddhist teachers of the Nyingma School at Mindröling monastery in the 17th century and onwards, showing what it meant for a person, lay or monastic, to be deemed well-educated. Combining historical and literary analysis with fieldwork in Tibetan Buddhist communities, this book reveals how monastic institutions work as centers of cultural production beyond the boundaries of what is conventionally deemed Buddhist.
- Topic:
- Education, Religion, History, Buddhism, and Cultural Production
- Political Geography:
- Asia and Tibet