The Words and World of GE Bcags Nunnery: Tantric Meditation in Context - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth McDougalSeries:Brill's Tibetan Studies LibraryTheme:Religious Orientation/BuddhistPublish date:2/7/2024Pages:262
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004687271ISBN-10:9004687270UPC:9789004687271Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:BuddhismBook Topic:Rituals & Practice, TibetanSize:9.45 x 6.14 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SC8M2NZ84V
Ge bcags (Gebchak) dgon pa, founded in 1892 in Nang chen, Khams (Qinghai Province, PRC), is still active today with around 250 nuns practising intensive Vajrayāna rituals, yogas and meditation.
The nuns' knowledge goal is embodied, nonconceptual awareness, yet they spend many hours daily reading texts as part of their training. By investigating the whole context of the nuns' lifeworld and ways of learning, this ethnography questions the role of reading in Ge bcags' tacit knowledge tradition. At a time when Tibetan learning practices are quickly modernising, this book demonstrates a Buddhist tradition whose textual knowledge is not exactly literal, but cultivated through continuous, whole person learning.
The nuns' knowledge goal is embodied, nonconceptual awareness, yet they spend many hours daily reading texts as part of their training. By investigating the whole context of the nuns' lifeworld and ways of learning, this ethnography questions the role of reading in Ge bcags' tacit knowledge tradition. At a time when Tibetan learning practices are quickly modernising, this book demonstrates a Buddhist tradition whose textual knowledge is not exactly literal, but cultivated through continuous, whole person learning.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004687271ISBN-10:9004687270UPC:9789004687271Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:BuddhismBook Topic:Rituals & Practice, TibetanSize:9.45 x 6.14 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SC8M2NZ84V
McDougal, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth McDougal, Ph.D. (2021), University of Sydney, lectures in Buddhist Studies at Nan Tien Institute. She has published on modern adaptations of Tibetan Buddhism and hidden lands (sbas yul), including Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History (Brill, 2021).
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