Yasmin Cho

Politics of Tranquility (eBook, ePUB)

The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar.

Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. She focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns show how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained, and yet still have substantial political effects. As Politics of Tranquility shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501778827
• Artikelnr.: 72582896

Autorenporträt

Yasmin Cho is an Earl S. Johnson Instructor in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and an affiliated scholar in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Becoming a Buddhist Nun in Post-Mao Tibe
Building an Encampment
Intimate Things
New Gestures
Cabbage, Tofu, and Sausage