Free Download Sara E. Lewis, "Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism"
English | ISBN: 1501715356 | 2020 | 252 pages | EPUB | 1519 KB
Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain and loss. Looking at the Tibetan diaspora, she challenges perspectives that liken resilience to the hardiness of physical materials, suggesting people should "bounce back" from adversity. More broadly, this ethnography calls into question the tendency to use trauma as an organizing principle for all studies of conflict where suffering is understood as an individual problem rooted in psychiatric illness.