The Words And World Of Ge Bcags Nunnery

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The Words and World of Ge bcags Nunnery

The Words and World of Ge bcags Nunnery
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9789004691742
ISBN-13 : 900469174X
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Book Synopsis The Words and World of Ge bcags Nunnery by : Elizabeth McDougal

Download or read book The Words and World of Ge bcags Nunnery written by Elizabeth McDougal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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