RT Book
T1 Architects of Buddhist leisure: socially disengaged Buddhism in Asia's museums, monuments, and amusement parks
T2 Contemporary Buddhism
A1 McDaniel, Justin
LA English
PP Honolulu
PB University of Hawaiʻi Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1686948220
AB Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia's culture of Buddhist leisure through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how "secular" and "religious," "public" and "private," are in many ways false binaries. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture
AB Monuments and metabolism : Kenzo Tange and the attempts to bring new architecture to Buddhism's oldest site -- Ecumenical parks and cosmological gardens : Braphai and Lek Wiriyaphan and Buddhist spectacle culture -- Buddhist museums and curio cabinets : Shi Fa Zhao and ecumenism without an agenda.
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN NA2543.R43
SN 0824866010
SN 0824865995
SN 0824865987
SN 9780824866013
SN 9780824865986
SN 9780824865993
K1 Tange, Kenzō : 1913-2005
K1 Lek Wiriyaphan
K1 Fazhao : Shi
K1 Architecture and recreation : Asia
K1 Buddhist architecture : Asia
K1 Tange, Kenzō
K1 ARCHITECTURE ; Buildings ; Public, Commercial & Industrial
K1 RELIGION ; Buddhism ; General
K1 Architecture and recreation
K1 Buddhist architecture
K1 Asia
K1 Electronic books