driven by the wind, the wind that this bird defies. He defies the roaring wind, and rides with such ease. Suddenly, he swings, gliding now, wind-powered, and is gone. I thrill to the mastery of the thing. “Mastery” – the word comes to me fromThe Windhover, that poem...
Much like how the violent subject of certain paintings is elided in discussions on the colours or mastery of technique, the history of the country estates is often forgotten in the face of beauty. Of course, Mornington Hall is ruinous, not a symbol of grandeur and elegance, and that ruinatio...
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This article, part of a special issue on pedagogy and performance in Tibetan Buddhism, explores two closely-related yet apparently opposite Tibetan repertoires of virtuoso Buddhist mastery as sites of performative pedagogy. One of these modes of Buddhist mastery is connected with the ideal virtuoso fi...
In Indic and Tibetan literature, both of these repertoires of Buddhist mastery are classically associated with a bodhisattva's teaching activity in the world, and with a bodhisattva's use of many kinds of skillful means (Skt. upa¯ya; Tib. thabs) to develop individuals on the Buddhist path...