Publications

Publication details [#45824]

Lempert, Michael P. 2007. How to make our subjects clear: Denotational transparency and subject formation in the Tibetan diaspora. Text & Talk 27 (4) : 509–532.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intelligibility | modernization | religion | ritual | subject

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

Using Malinowski's classic discussion of magical speech's 'co-efficients' of 'weirdness and intelligibility', this article explores the fraught link between intelligibility and subject formation in the Tibetan diaspora and Tibetan Buddhist modernists' efforts in India to redefine the subject.