Christina A Kilby
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina A Kilby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilby |
| SIGNATURE | KILBY C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Gift of Fearlessness
In this article, I present abhayadāna (‘the gift of fearlessness’) as a Buddhist framework for the protection of populations who are vulnerable to violence, terror or displacement during times of conflict. Abhayadāna is an ancient Indian ethic that inspired the political activism of Hindu leader Mohandas Gandhi. Although seldom invoked by Buddhists today (one notable exception is Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal to abhayadāna in her 1990 essay ‘Freedom …
Humanizing the Enlightened Childhood
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 te…
Printing Tibetan Epistolaria
In Tibetan tradition, letter writing is a sophisticated art in which the material aspects of a letter––paper format, script style and size, text spacing and layout––are integral to the letter's semantic content. What meaning is lost and gained in the transformation from manuscript original to printed edition? What scribal and editorial decisions are at play in this textual transformation? My aims in this article are twofold: to introduce scholars…
Bowing with Words
This article analyzes the ritual dimensions of Tibetan epistolary style. By examining the material aspects of handwritten Tibetan epistles—paper size and shape, script size and style, text spacing and margins—along with the formal instructions found in Tibetan epistolary manuals, I show how an epistle’s physical constitution renders two bodies performing a symbolic display of hierarchy on the page. This display of hierarchy is most dramatic in th…
Bowing with Words
This article analyzes the ritual dimensions of Tibetan epistolary style. By examining the material aspects of handwritten Tibetan epistles—paper size and shape, script size and style, text spacing and margins—along with the formal instructions found in Tibetan epistolary manuals, I show how an epistle’s physical constitution renders two bodies performing a symbolic display of hierarchy on the page. This display of hierarchy is most dramatic in th…
Bowing with Words
This article analyzes the ritual dimensions of Tibetan epistolary style. By examining the material aspects of handwritten Tibetan epistles—paper size and shape, script size and style, text spacing and margins—along with the formal instructions found in Tibetan epistolary manuals, I show how an epistle’s physical constitution renders two bodies performing a symbolic display of hierarchy on the page. This display of hierarchy is most dramatic in th…
Printing Tibetan Epistolaria
In Tibetan tradition, letter writing is a sophisticated art in which the material aspects of a letter––paper format, script style and size, text spacing and layout––are integral to the letter's semantic content. What meaning is lost and gained in the transformation from manuscript original to printed edition? What scribal and editorial decisions are at play in this textual transformation? My aims in this article are twofold: to introduce scholars…
The Gift of Fearlessness
In this article, I present abhayadāna (‘the gift of fearlessness’) as a Buddhist framework for the protection of populations who are vulnerable to violence, terror or displacement during times of conflict. Abhayadāna is an ancient Indian ethic that inspired the political activism of Hindu leader Mohandas Gandhi. Although seldom invoked by Buddhists today (one notable exception is Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal to abhayadāna in her 1990 essay ‘Freedom …
Humanizing the Enlightened Childhood
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 te…
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Buddhism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works)