Social Structuration in Tibetan Society

Jia Luo is professor at Northwest Normal University.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Methodological Approach for Tibetan Sociology of EducationChapter 3: Applicability of the Structuration Theory to Tibetan SocietyChapter 4: Introducing Je TsongKhapa to the Field of SociologyChapter 5: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Tibetan Social StructurationChapter 6: The Social Structuration of Tibetan SocietyChapter 7: Setting Giddens and Je TsongKhapa in Dialogue: Structuration in Spiritual SocietyChapter 8: The Relation of Education to Tibetan SocietyChapter 9: Conclusion

In Social Structuration in Tibetan Society, Jia Luo offers a groundbreaking exploration of Tibetan education—oral, monastic, and state—as viewed through the complex prism of its institutions, spiritual life, and philosophical history. At the heart of the task, the long philosophical tradition emanating from Je Tsongkhapa is brought face to face with the thinking of Anthony Giddens as a canonical figure of Western sociology. This study is an illuminating contribution to a Tibetan sociology of education.