A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery

by Dominique Townsend

Book Overview

Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindr ling 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 across Tibetan Buddhist schools while crystallizing what it meant to be part of their own Nyingma school. At the monastery, ritual performance, meditation, renunciation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231194870
• ISBN13: 9780231194877
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"