[Linganth] today on the blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Yasmin Cho discusses her new book, *Politics of Tranquility: The Material
and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet *today on the CaMP
blog.

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Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan
Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a
Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric
qualities, Cho 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 demonstrate 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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