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Commentary and the Mystique of Orality Commentary and the Mystique of Orality
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Silent or out Loud Reading? Silent or out Loud Reading?
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Transmission and Authority Transmission and Authority
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Oral Commentary and Reading Oral Commentary and Reading
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The Art of Oral Commentary: Personal Recollections The Art of Oral Commentary: Personal Recollections
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7 Scholasticism and Orality: Myth and Reality
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Published:January 2003
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Abstract
Scholasticism revolves around the interpretation of constitutive texts in light of commentaries. This chapter examines the nature of interpretation that Tibetan scholastic practices presuppose and the tools that support such practices. In the Western medieval tradition, the core practice was the lecture (lectio), which includes both reading and the lecture proper. The lecture was supplemented by the disputation (disputatio), during which students debated questions raised by the lecture. But because of its double meaning, lectio signals the connection between aural practice and reading, a connection that may surprise those of us accustomed to think of reading as silent and solitary. The chapter discusses the connections between commentary, reading, and orality in the Tibetan scholastic tradition. The role of oral commentary can be better understood by relating it to notions of authority, the continuity of the tradition, and the transmission of the teaching.
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