Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture
(Part of the Topics in Contemporary Buddhism Series)
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An idealized view of the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk might be described according to the doctrinal demand for emotional detachment and, ultimately, the cessation of all desire. Yet monks are also enjoined to practice compassion, a powerful emotion and equally lofty ideal, and live with every other human feeling--love, hate, jealousy, ambition--while relating to other monks and the lay community. In this important ethnography of Buddhism in Sri...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0824833856
ISBN13:9780824833855
Release Date:July 2010
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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