Humanizing the Enlightened Childhood
Epistolography as Human Formation in Tibetan Buddhism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9204522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina A Kilby (Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 336-356 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Numen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685276-12341627 |
| OpenAlex | W3172006975 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
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 textual study, though rooted in the context of a single epistolary relationship in early modern Tibet, illuminates the search for human wisdom that is fundamental to Buddhist childhoods across historical and cultural contexts
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Context (archaeology) · History of religions · Human life · Humanism · Perspective (graphical) · Sociology · Theology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Visual arts · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |