عنوان

Morality and monastic revival in post-Mao Tibet /

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0824878051

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9780824878054

Erroneous ISBN

0824869842

Erroneous ISBN

9780824869847

Title Proper

Morality and monastic revival in post-Mao Tibet /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jane E. Caple.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Hawaiʻi Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 218 pages)

Series Title

Contemporary Buddhism

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Monastic revival : a social and moral reordering -- Monastic reform : the path to "self-sufficiency" -- Monastic tourism : defining value -- Monastic development in morally troubled times -- Monastic recruitment and retention -- The future of mass monasticism -- Seeing beyond the state.

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The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. At the end of the 1970s, there were no working monasteries; within a decade, thousands had been reconstructed and repopulated. Most studies have focused on the political challenges facing Tibetan monasteries, emphasizing their relationship to the Chinese state. Yet, in their efforts to revive and develop their institutions, monks have also had to negotiate a rapidly changing society, playing a delicate balancing act fraught with moral dilemma as well as political danger. Drawing on the recent "moral turn" in anthropology, this volume, the first full-length ethnographic study of the subject, explores the social and moral dimensions of monastic revival and reform across a range of Geluk monasteries in northeast Tibet (Amdo/Qinghai province) from the 1980s on. Author Jane Caple's analysis shows that ideas and debates about how best to maintain the mundane bases of monastic Buddhism--economy and population--are intermeshed with those concerning the proper role and conduct of monks and the ethics of monastic-lay relations. Facing a shrinking monastic population, monks are grappling with the impacts of secular education, demographic transition, rising living standards, urbanization, and marketization, all of which have driven debates within Buddhism elsewhere and fueled perceptions of monastic decline. Some Tibetans--including monks--are even questioning the "good" of the mass form of monasticism that has been a distinctive feature of Tibetan society for hundreds of years. Given monastic Buddhism's integral position in Tibetan community life and association with Tibetan identity, Caple argues that its precarity in relation to Tibetan society raises questions about its future that go well beyond the issue of religious freedom.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctv7s7ckd

Title

Morality and monastic revival in post-Mao Tibet.

International Standard Book Number

9780824869847

Buddhist monasteries-- China-- Tibet Autonomous Region.

Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)-- China-- Tibet Autonomous Region-- Customs and practices.

Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)-- China-- Tibet Autonomous Region.

Buddhist monasteries.

Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)

RELIGION-- Buddhism-- Tibetan.

RELIGION-- Comparative Religion.

China, Tibet Autonomous Region.

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HIS-- 008000

POL-- 054000

REL-- 007010

REL-- 007050

REL-- 017000

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Edition

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Caple, Jane E.

Date of Transaction

20200822141351.0

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[Book]

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