Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture: An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning

by Kenneth Liberman

Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742556123
• ISBN13: 9780742556126
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"