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id: tibetan-bod-kyi-gtam
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title: Bod Kyi Gtam Story Council
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description: >-
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A Tibetan practice of using narrative (gtam) in council and teaching to
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convey ethical and practical wisdom, where an elder tells a story whose
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meaning the listeners draw out themselves. Rooted in Tibetan Buddhist
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and folk traditions of teaching through narrative rather than
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proposition.
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source: Tibetan narrative tradition / Tibetan Buddhist teaching
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source_url: https://www.tibetology.net/
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tags: [tibetan, story, council, narrative, buddhist]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Convene for the story
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description: >-
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The elder or teacher convenes the group — a family, a council, a
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class — and announces that a story will be told. The listeners
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settle.
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- headline: Tell the story
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description: >-
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The elder tells the story without explaining its meaning. The
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narrative is left to work on the listeners; the teller does not
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moralise.
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- headline: Sit with the story
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description: >-
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After the telling, the group sits in silence. Listeners let the story
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settle; they do not immediately analyse or extract a lesson.
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- headline: Invite reflections
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description: >-
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The elder invites reflections — what the story brought up, what it
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asked. Listeners speak from their own encounter with the narrative,
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not to agree on a single meaning.
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- headline: Close without resolution
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description: >-
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The gathering closes without a forced resolution. The story is left
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to continue working; its meaning is not pinned.
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outcome: >-
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The group receives wisdom through narrative that resists reduction to
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proposition, with each listener drawing their own meaning.
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practice: >-
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The discipline is not to explain the story. If the elder moralises, the
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form collapses into lecture. Let the silence after the telling do its
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work. |