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The Buddhist Nuns’s Brahma Voice In The Hubbub

Posted on:2015-01-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330428967809Subject:Ethnomusicology
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This paper takes Hubei province Wuhan Hankou Qiyin Buddhist Temple as the research object,carries on a research to the Buddhist music and cultural activities.This article is divided into five chapters:The first chapter describes the image of Qiyin Buddhist Temple culture with the method of field investigation of music anthropology, especially the field interview the num lived in Qiyin Buddhist Temple;The second chapter analyzes the humanity, location and environment of the temple by the view of space-time;The third chapter is Qiyin Buddhist music presentation; The fourth chapter is the analysis of the relationship between music, religious and female. The paragraph is trying to explane, which kind of music is able to make these believers crowded in a small temple, repeat this monotonousmelody;The fifth chapter is the conclusion.According to the classical works of Marx Webb, our time is a secular age, is a disenchantment age, is a value of God’s time, is a value reason replaced by instrumental reason’s time.Humankind not only need to seek knowledge, look for a scientific answer, but also we are complex emotional creature. No matter how exact explanation given by the perspective of biology, people will still have the fear of death, feel mysterious about fate, confused about the meaning of lives, and seek answer for humanity once and once again.In this sense, the religious phenomenon increasingly attract our people’s attention. In the process of urbanization in the city today, men need take more part in the competition in the commercialized society, while women are taking more responsbility. However, hidden in the era of noise, the Qiyin Buddhist Temple’s nun’s determination is our answer.In the process of their spiritual life in Buddhism, what does they experience? Why they can sing this ethereal song for so long time? And How dose modern woman to find a balance,between urban and temple, daily life and religous, differented from the traditional.
Keywords/Search Tags:Buddhism music, Habitat hidden temple, Women, Music life
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