How Long to Read Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 48 minutes to read Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture by Kenneth Liberman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has overlooked these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an interactional tool to organize their reflections. During his three years in residence at Tibetan monastic universities, Liberman observed and videotaped the monks' debates. He then transcribed, translated, and analyzed them using multimedia software and ethnomethodological techniques, which enabled him to scrutinize the local methods that Tibetan debaters use to keep their philosophical inquiries alive. His study shows the monks rely on such indigenous dialectical methods as extending an opponent's position to its absurd consequences, "pulling the rug out" from under an opponent, and other lively strategies. This careful investigation of the formal philosophical work of Tibetan scholars is a pathbreaking analysis of an important classical tradition.

How long is Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture?

Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture by Kenneth Liberman is 338 pages long, and a total of 87,204 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 56 minutes to read Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture?

Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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