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| Singing Nuns of Tibet: From Language of Buddhism to Language of Protest | ||
| 作者 | Tsering Kalden (著) |
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| 出處題名 | བོད་ཀྱི་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཉམས་ཞིབ་དུས་དེབ།=Tibet Policy Journal |
| 卷期 | v.6 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2019 |
| 頁次 | 89 - 112 |
| 出版者 | The Tibet Policy Institute |
| 出版者網址 | https://tibetpolicy.net/ |
| 出版地 | Dharamsala, India [達蘭薩拉, 印度] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English; 藏文=Tibetan |
| 關鍵詞 | Resistance; Drapchi prison; nuns; songs; communist China; demonstration; human rights |
| 摘要 | The article examines the accounts of nuns who have left a mark in the history of political struggle in Tibet. A number of protests took place after the occupation of Tibet by the Communist China in 1950. This article sheds light on the widely recognized ‘singing nuns’ as a unique form of resistance initiated by fourteen nuns undergoing brutal custody in Drapchi (Number one prison in Tibet Autonomous Region). This study particularly analyzes the freedom songs sung by the nuns in Drapchi prison and presents how they articulated their political views and criticism of the authoritarian Chinese government and asserted Tibetan identity. This paper also explores the position of nuns vis-a-vis monks and when juxtaposed with lay Tibetan girls, nuns are usually considered to hold a privileged position in Tibetan society. This determination in maintaining their religious practice became their voice of protest under the suppression of Communist China. However, the question here is, how their language of Buddhism is being transformed into a language of protest with the invasion of Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army of China. The study also stresses the importance of the voices of resistance by the 14 nuns despite the religious hierarchy and additionally being women in the society. The resistance from the fourteen nuns encompasses political, social and religious values. Their medium of demonstration against the repressive China’s rule is a nonviolent initiative while at the same time, they have managed to find a new language to express their resistance to China’s rule over Tibet. |
| 目次 | Abstract 89 Introduction 90 The Singing Nuns of Drapchi 92 Status of Nuns Before 1959 in Tibet 92 Contradictory Notion Constructed on Nuns 94 Songs from the 'Heart of Darkness' 95 Language of Buddhism to Language of Protest 104 Collective Nature of Resistance in the Form of Songs 108 Conclusion 110 Reference 112 |
| ISSN | 23942983 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 29 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.10.11 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.10.11 |
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