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Informationen zum Autor Michael Lempert is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Klappentext " Discipline and Debate offers both a vivid picture and a painstaking analysis of social and linguistic practices of traditional and post-traditional monastic education among Tibetans living in India." -Guy Newland! author of Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path "Ethnographically rich! interpretively acute and generative! and always lucid and compelling! Discipline and Debate is a singular contribution. Lempert moves with insight from detailed examinations of the language of monastic debate to broad gauge considerations of diasporic Tibetan Buddhist entanglements within its contemporary exilic world." -Don Brenneis! Department of Anthropology! University of California! Santa Cruz "This extraordinary study sets a new standard for the study of the links between culture and social interaction. No one who cares about the study of religion! language or modernity-or who cares about the place of interaction in cultural theory-should miss this book." -Joel Robbins! author of Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society Zusammenfassung 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. This title looks at everyday education rites - from debate to reprimand and corporal punishment. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Technical Note on Transcription and Research Methods Introduction: Liberal Sympathies Part I. Debate 1. Dissensus by Design 2. Debate as a Rite of Institution 3. Debate as a Diasporic Pedagogy Part II. Discipline 4. Public Reprimand Is Serious Theatre 5. Affected Signs! Sincere Subjects Conclusion: The Liberal Subject! in Pieces References Notes Index ...
