000			03990cam a2200433 i 4500
001			on1159791471
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105143.0
008			200830s2021 nyua ob 001 0 eng
010			_a2020028556
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dRECBK _dOCL _dOCLCO _dEBLCP _dNT _dYDX _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dUKAHL _dJSTOR
020			_a9780231551052 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
042			_apcc
043			_aa-cc-ti
050	0	0	_aBQ6349 _b.B833 2021
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aTownsend, Dominique, _e1
245	1	0	_aA Buddhist sensibility : _baesthetic education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery / _cDominique Townsend.
300			_a1 online resource : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
500			_aRevision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2012, titled Materials of Buddhist culture : aesthetics and cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery.
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Buddhist aesthetics, the cultivation of the senses, and beauty's efficacy -- _tHistorical background : laying the foundation for Mindröling -- _tA pleasure grove for the Buddhist senses : Mindröling takes root -- _tPlucking the strings : on style, letter writing, and relationships -- _tTraining the senses : aesthetic education for monastics -- _tTaming the aristocrats : cultivating early modern Tibetan Buddhist literati and bureaucrats -- _tEpilogue: The next generation and beyond.
520	0		_a"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 Tibetan Buddhist schools while crystallizing what it meant to be part of their own Nyingma school. At the monastery, ritual performance, meditation, renunciation, and training in the skills of a bureaucrat or member of the literati went hand in hand. Studying at Mindröling entailed training the senses and cultivating the objects of the senses through poetry, ritual music, monastic dance, visual arts, and incense production, as well as medicine and astrology. Dominique Townsend investigates the ritual, artistic, and cultural practices inculcated at Mindröling to demonstrate how early modern Tibetans integrated Buddhist and worldly activities through training in aesthetics. Considering laypeople as well as monastics and women as well as men, A Buddhist Sensibility sheds new light on the forms of knowledge valued in early modern Tibetan societies, especially among the ruling classes. Townsend traces how tastes, values, and sensibilities were cultivated and spread, showing what it meant for a person, lay or monastic, to be deemed well educated. Combining historical and literary analysis with fieldwork in Tibetan Buddhist communities, this book reveals how monastic institutions work as centers of cultural production beyond the boundaries of what is conventionally deemed Buddhist"-- _cProvided by publisher.
530			_a2 _ub
610	2	0	_aSmin-grol-gling (Monastery : Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
650		0	_aAesthetics _xReligious aspects _xBuddhism.
650		0	_aBuddhism and art _zChina _zTibet Autonomous Region.
650		0	_aBuddhist monasticism and religious orders _xEducation _zChina _zTibet Autonomous Region.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2458739&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hBQ. _m2021 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c90824 _d90824
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell