Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery by Michael Lempert

Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery

Michael Lempert

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The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace, but this does not reflect how monks learn their vocation. This book shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this trad...

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