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2003

Format:	Book
Author:	Dreyfus, Georges B. J.
Title:	The sound of two hands clapping : the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk / Georges B.J. Dreyfus.
Publisher, Date:	Berkeley, Calif : University of California Press, c2003.
Description:	xv, 445 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:	Buddhist monks -- Education -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. Buddhist education -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-417) and index.
Contents:	Tibetan Buddhism: a brief historical overview -- Tibetan monasticism -- Becoming a monk: teacher and discipline -- Literacy and memorization -- General structure of the Tibetan curriculum -- Two curricular models -- Scholasticism and orality: myth and reality -- Commentary and meditation -- Supplement: hermeneutical or deconstructive? -- Debate as practice -- Debate in the curriculum -- Is debate a mode of inquiry? -- Rationality and spirit cult -- Limits of the inquiry --
Web Site:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents
LCCN:	2001005494
ISBN:	0520232593 9780520232594 0520232607 9780520232600
Other Number:	47996118
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Control Number:	392287
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Call Number:	294.375 Dreyfus

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