EDUCATION IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM: MODERN TRENDS // BSU bulletin. Philosophy. - 2017. №5. Философия. Philosophy. - С. 77-83.

EDUCATION IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM: MODERN TRENDS

Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке Российского научного фонда в рамках научно-исследовательского проекта «Буддизм в социально-политических и культурных процессах России, Внутренней и Восточной Азии: трансформации и перспективы» № 14-18-00444.

DOI: 10.18101/1994-0866-2017-5-77-83 UDK: 294.321

The article deals with the main trends of confessional education development in Tibet- an Buddhism, which have arisen as a response to the global spread of postmodern ide- ology in the modern world. At present, the development of Buddhist education is tak- ing place in a new cultural setting, dominated mainly by Western educational stand- ards. This leads to the need to adapt traditional standards not only to education systems aimed at Western followers of Buddhism, but also to those that are targeted at students who traditionally practice Buddhism in the countries affected by the processes of globalization. Adaptation takes place in different forms: 1) new disciplines are sup- plemented with traditional subject content while preserving the forms and methods of traditional education; 2) a set of traditional disciplines is taught in forms approximat- ing the standards of secular university education; 3) the philosophical and doctrinal content of Buddhism is taught as a secular specialization. These tendencies are still at the periphery of the confessional educational process, but given the increasing spread of Buddhism in the West, as well as the increasing Westernization of the countries within the traditional area of its existence, we can expect the development of this am- biguous process in the future.

Buddhism; Tibet; education; personality; tradition; Mahayana; multicultur- alism.