RT Book
T1 Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
A2 Berkwitz, Stephen C. 1969-
A2 Bernstein, Anya 1968-
A2 Caple, Jane
A2 Chia, Jack Meng-Tat
A2 Craig, Sienna
A2 Elison, William 1968-
A2 Evans, Grant 1948-2014
A2 Farrelly, Paul J.
A2 Ferguson, Jane M.
A2 Fisher, Gareth
A2 Friedrich, Daniel G.
A2 Galmiche, Florence
A2 Gamburd, Michele R.
A2 Gayley, Holly
A2 Gellner, David N.
A2 McDaniel, Justin
A2 Rowe, Mark Michael
A2 Samuels, Jeffrey
LA English
PP Honolulu
PB University of Hawaii Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1006263322
AB This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes. The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a “new asceticism,” while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes—looking backward, forward, inward, and outward—reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country.
CN BQ840
SN 9780824858582
K1 Buddhists : Asia : Biography
K1 Buddhism and culture : Asia
K1 Buddhism : Asia
K1 Buddhism and culture
K1 Buddhism
K1 Buddhists
K1 RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
DO 10.1515/9780824858582