[PDF.39yh] Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism)

Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism)

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 | #3007932 in Books |  Univ of Hawaii Pr |  2010-07-06 |  2010-07-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.90 x6.00l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| I loved it !|By fabviz|I loved this book, not boring at all ! You feel so close to Sri Lankan Buddhist monks and laypeople, their needs and concerns. The author analyzes very closely the origin of the bonds between them, and the implications that result. Very interesting book !|About the Author|Jeffrey Samuels is professor of religious studies at Western Kentucky University.

An idealized view of the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk might be described according to the doctrinal demand for emotional detachment and, ultimately, the cessation of all desire. Yet monks are also enjoined to practice compassion, a powerful emotion and equally lofty ideal, and live with every other human feeling―love, hate, jealousy, ambition―while relating to other monks and the lay community. In this important ethnography of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Samuel...

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