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Written by Jonathan Mair
The makers of a new documentary contacted me about their film, about nuns in Nepal, which looks excellent. Details are below, together with links to their sites and to the trailer for the film on Youtube. The film was produced by a team of students from the University of St Andrews. Daughters of Dolma An upcoming documentary about Tibetan Buddhist nuns offering an exciting and ground-breaking insight into monastic life. The film opens up new horizons into the life of Buddhist practitioners in its endeavour to capture their daily routines beyond their spiritual practices and rituals. It presents three generations of nuns living in a community from a wholly new angle in that it portrays them as human beings with…
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Daughters of Dolma
Written by Jonathan Mair
The makers of a new documentary contacted me about their film, about nuns in Nepal, which looks excellent. Details are below, together with links to their sites and to the trailer for the film on Youtube. The film was produced by a team of students from the University of St Andrews. Daughters of Dolma An upcoming documentary about Tibetan Buddhist nuns offering an exciting and ground-breaking insight into monastic life. The film opens up new horizons into the life of Buddhist practitioners in its endeavour to capture their daily routines beyond their spiritual practices and rituals. It presents three generations of nuns living in a community from a wholly new angle in that it portrays them as human beings with…
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Buddhist Ethics of Achievement
Written by Jonathan Mair
Jonathan Mair, 'Achieving the self: thinking about achievement through Inner Mongolian Buddhism' What is achievement? How do we measure it? How do conceptions of achievement differ between societies and across over the life-cycle?
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Cook, J., J. Laidlaw & J. Mair 2009. What if there is no elephant? Towards a conception of an un-sited field. In Multi-sited ethnography: theory, praxis and locality in contemporary social research (ed.) M. Falzon. London: Ashgate. This article is a contribution to a collection on the subject of multi-sited research edited by Mark-Anthony Falzon.
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Meditation in Modern Buddhism – Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life
Written by Jonathan Mair
J. Cook 2010. Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life. Cambridge University Press. In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassanā meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns) living in monastic communities.
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