Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery

by Michael Lempert

Book Overview

The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace, but this does not reflect how monks learn their vocation. This book shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformers--like the Dalai Lama--adopt liberal and democratic ideals, such as natural rights and individual autonomy. In the first in-depth account of disciplinary practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520269470
• ISBN13: 9780520269477
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"