A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery
(Part of the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Series)
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Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindr ling 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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231194870
ISBN13:9780231194877
Release Date:March 2021
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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