Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture : an Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning.
Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern re...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2007
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an interactional tool to organize their. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780742576865 0742576868 0742527441 9780742527447 1299453333 9781299453333 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
