The Daily Life Of Monks And Construction Of Community In Tibetan Buddhist Monastery

Tibetan Buddhist monasteries have been playing a crucial rule in cultivating Buddhist talents and diffusing the Tibetan Buddhist culture in the process of Tibetan social developing.For large periods of time,monks were the main promoters of Tibetan culture,and monasteries became the center for training the cultural elites.In terms of the study on monasteries,the past study has not been conducted from the perspective of community construction.For the study on community,the past study only focused on the villages around monastery and ignored the noumenon of monastery itself.This dissertation regards the construction of monastic community as the starting point of study,takes the monastic community as an ever-changing multi-dimensional aggregation that was formed by the interaction of people under the rules of the system,and takes the daily life and interaction of monks under formal and informal institutions as the research studying point rather than the traditional research perspectives like functions and elements or the structures of the community.The first chapter focuses on human and geographical habitats of Labrang,including the history and regional overview of the Labrang Monastic community,a review of the various types,positions,and academic systems and degrees of monks,and the spatial layout of Buddhist temples as well as the house of monks in the monastic community.The second chapter is the introduction to the daily life of monks and construction of community,including the education and asevana practice under the formal institution and leisure activities under the informal institution.The multi-dimensional interaction under different institutions jointly constructed the community of monastery.The third chapter describes the integrity norm of monks in monastic community from the view of sacred and profane,and the features of daily contacts between monks and other people,also summarizes the relational structure ofthe monastery community.The relationship between the religious life established around religion and the leisure life relationship established around the daily life and interest among the monks have jointly enhanced the emotional sustaining force of the monastery community and also increased the cohesion within the monastic community.Using the constructivism theory,the dissertation sets out from the daily life and interaction of monks in order to grasp the content of the monastery community institution and daily contacts rules of monks,accordingly discover and summarize the recessive structure and characteristics of the Labrang monastic community,so as to promote the study of monastic community.