Tibet Tour Highlight: Tibetan Monk Debate

In this video, you'll watch the Tibet tour highlight and Tibetan monk debate. The monk’s debates are a huge attraction for tourists to Tibet. Full of loud statements, hand-clapping, and extravagant gestures, they are one of the most interesting parts of a visit to any monastery. https://www.tibettravel.org/tibet-tra...

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In many monasteries in Tibet, you can watch the debates in the afternoons, held in special debating areas that are usually courtyards, orchards, or grass lawns with shady trees.

The main purpose of the Tibetan monastic debates is to defeat any misconceptions. By establishing a defensible view, one can clear away all objections to that view. The monastic debates are not merely academics, more a way of using the direct implications of the obvious to generate an inference of a non-obvious state of a phenomenon.

Debaters are seeking an understanding of the nature of reality through a very careful analysis of natural phenomena. This search for the basis of reality is the most essential part of a monastic debate.

Origins of Tibetan Monastic Debating
Debating has had a long and distinguished history in Buddhism and during the early days if his teachings, the texts tell that he was of the opinion that a true monk argues with no one and stays apart from any public debates. However, there are later texts that show Buddha as a vigorous and successful debater, which has given rise to the modern use of debates in Buddhism.

Originally, the Buddha simply taught those who were interested in what he had to say, but in a multi-religious environment in which he taught, and due to the natural tendency to critical inquiry into the beliefs and assertions of oneself, the need to explain and clarify his teachings to other religious leaders and laymen became necessary.

Over the years, as can be found in the ancient Buddhist texts, he became a master of debate and was so successful in converting his opponents that he was often accused of using magic to sway their beliefs. In the later centuries, debating became a part of the normal life of the Buddhist monks and played an important part in winning intellectuals over to Buddhism.

It has also become a formal mechanism for the resolution of sectarian and monastic disagreements, and a person’s own critical engagement with the standard Buddhist doctrines.

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