A Buddhist Sensibility : : Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery / / Dominique Townsend.
Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling 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 Ti...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Translations and Transliterations
- Introduction: Buddhist Aesthetics, the Cultivation of the Senses, and Beauty’s Efficacy
- ONE. Historical Background: Laying the Foundation for Mindröling
- TWO. A Pleasure Grove for the Buddhist Senses: Mindröling Takes Root
- THREE. Plucking the Strings: On Style, Letter Writing, and Relationships
- FOUR Training the Senses Aesthetic Education for Monastics
- FIVE Taming the Aristocrats Cultivating Early Modern Tibetan Literati and Bureaucrats
- EPILOGUE Destruction and Revival The Next Generation
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index