Tibetan Buddhism A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Kapstein Matthew T

Author:Kapstein, Matthew T. [Kapstein, Matthew T.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

6. Monks practicing debate in the courtyard of Ganden monastery, Tsongkhapa’s seat in Central Tibet.

Debate encouraged able students to explore the implications of the texts they were simultaneously engaged in mastering. In some monastic colleges, the accent was placed less on debate and more on oral and written commentary, resembling the emphasis in some types of Western education on “explication de texte.” Several pedagogical styles thus emerged, characterizing in part the approaches of differing monastic orders.

The emergence of Tibetan scholasticism

The Sangpu curriculum was refined by a succession of brilliant teachers, including Chapa Chökyi Senggé (1109–69), who is credited with systematizing the debate logic overall. Sakya Paṇḍita also received his early philosophical education at Sangpu before continuing his studies with the Kashmiri master Śākyaśrībhadra and his entourage of Indian scholars, with whom he applied himself to mastering Sanskrit grammar and related subjects. This training would lend a notably “Indological” perspective to his mature scholarship. In his treatise, the Scholar’s Gate (Khepa Jukpé Go), he sets forth his scholarly ideals in general, basing them on mastery of composition, rhetoric, and debate.

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