Humanizing the Enlightened Childhood: Epistolography as Human Formation in Tibetan Buddhism
Abstract This article contributes a Buddhist studies perspective to the question of what it means to be human. By analyzing a collection of letters written to a young Tibetan Buddhist lama, I trace the contours of a humanizing project that grounds the youth within the lived experience of the human l...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Numen
Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 4, Pages: 336-356 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tibet
/ Epistolography
/ Lamaism
/ Lama
/ Incarnation
/ Child
/ Development
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Human
B Buddhism B Education B Letters B Childhood B Epistolography |
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| Summary: | Abstract This article contributes a Buddhist studies perspective to the question of what it means to be human. By analyzing a collection of letters written to a young Tibetan Buddhist lama, I trace the contours of a humanizing project that grounds the youth within the lived experience of the human life course that his elder has traversed. I also analyze epistolography as a medium for humanistic formation within Tibetan Buddhist monastic education. This textual study, though rooted in the context of a single epistolary relationship in early modern Tibet, illuminates the search for human wisdom that is fundamental to Buddhist childhoods across historical and cultural contexts. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341627 |