现代变迁与民族经验——西藏社会的个案

Modern Changes and Ethnic Experiences:the Case of Tibetan Society

西藏社会正在由一个传统宗教型社会,转变为一个现代开放式的经济型社会。对其而言,由现代化引起的系列变迁(物质生活、制度文化与精神传统)是一场史无前例的文化体验,也是一类不可重复的民族经验,其中既包含大时代的共性特质,也富有本民族的个性差异。现代变革促使西藏社会及时地进行文化自觉,并对当下诸多社会共同面临的发展命题提供自身独特的丰富经验与实践之道。

Nowadays Tibetan society is transforming from a traditional religious society into a modem,open one which focuses on economic development model. The series of social changes caused by modernization which took place in the field of material life,institutional culture and religious culture is a kind of un- precedented cultural feelings and ethnic experience that will never be repeated. It has the common char- acteristics of modernization as well as the personality of Tibetan society itself. The modem reform inspires Tibetan society to achieve cultural consciousness and provides special developing experience for many other societies