whispered lineage

Conclusive 2nd Part of a long essay contextualising and analysing the approximately 130 Tibetan, and single Western, Tibetan Buddhist self-immolations of February 2009 to April 2014. Part Two focuses on the empirical, metaethical and normative dimensions, as well as the phenomenology and symbolic ontology, of self-immolation as a formal act within the ethico-political repertoire of ‘global contention.’ Published in the online Journal of Buddhist Ethics, April 1, 2014:

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/2014/04/01/buddhist-self-immolation-and-mahayanist-absolute-altruism-part-two/