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Sit Like A Bell: Sound And The Body In Tibetan Buddhism, Christopher Elford
Sit Like A Bell: Sound And The Body In Tibetan Buddhism, Christopher Elford
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Lobsag Khedup, a 32 year-old Tibetan Monk living in a single room at an art center in Zhongdian where he teaches the art of thangka painting, wakes in silence at 6 a.m. He pulls his bedding around him as if to make a nest out of it. It is cold and his action is somehow appropriate to the introversion of the hour. There is no light in the room, no room yet to speak of, just the dull indistinct sense of an interior. He sits up and starts to pray. But to pray isn’t enough, he must make his devotional …