![]() | Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet Subjects: Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Customs and practices; Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region; Buddhist monasteries -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region; The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. At the end of the 1970s, there were no working monasteries; within a decade, thousands had been reconstructed and repopulated. Most studies have focused on the political challenges facing Tibetan monasteries, emphasizing their relationship to the Chinese state. Yet, in their efforts to revive and develop their institutions, monks have also had to negotiate a rapidly changing society, playing a delicate balancing act fraught with moral dilemma as well as political danger. Drawing on the recent "moral turn" in anthropology, this volume, the first full-length ethnographic study of the subject, explores the social and moral dimensions of monastic revival and reform across a range of Geluk monasteries in northeast Tibet (Amdo/Qinghai Province) from the 1980s on. Jane E. Caple is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. |
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