Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen
9. Internalized and Forced Discipline
Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen
Mitra Härkönen [+]
University of Helsinki
Mitra Härkönen is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Description
The disciplinary domain of power manages the power relations that regulate the lives of Tibetan nuns as women, as religious practitioners and as Tibetans who live under the rule of the Chinese state. As Tibetan women, they can find themselves as representatives of both tradition and modernity. As female religious practitioners, they are observed by other Tibetans. And as Tibetan religious practitioners, they are monitored by the Chinese state.