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Contemporary Mongolian Buddhism
2016This chapter consists of two main sections. The first section is concerned with a brief and broad overview of the emergence and development of Buddhism during different periods, namely, those of the Mongol Empire, the colonial Qing rule in Mongolia, and the establishment of the Autonomous Mongolian State.
Vesna A. Wallace, Christine Murphy
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2020
Is Buddhism a religion, and if so in what sense? This question has perplexed Westerners ever since their first encounters with Buddhism in the eighteenth century. Early missionaries, merchants, and government officials living in Asia wrote home in confusion.
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Is Buddhism a religion, and if so in what sense? This question has perplexed Westerners ever since their first encounters with Buddhism in the eighteenth century. Early missionaries, merchants, and government officials living in Asia wrote home in confusion.
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Buddhism in Contemporary Bhutan
2016Buddhism has been a consistent feature of Bhutanese politics and culture since the country’s founding by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel in the seventeenth century. A mixture of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism combined with indigenous customs and worldviews, Bhutanese Buddhism remains a fundamental aspect of contemporary Bhutanese identity.
Samdrup Rigyal, M. Alyson Prude
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Contemporary Vietnamese Buddhism
2016The Vietnamese have had a particularly traumatic experience throughout the twentieth century. Colonial domination, decades of some of the most brutal warfare the world has ever seen, and the dispersal of Vietnamese refugees throughout the globe have made a strong impact on the way that Vietnamese Buddhism is practiced and perceived. Vietnamese Buddhism,
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2016
Contemporary Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar is diverse and manifold, and the variety of “modern” forms of Buddhism have evolved since the colonial period in dynamic interplay with modernization, colonization, nation-building, and shifting socioeconomic circumstances.
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Contemporary Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar is diverse and manifold, and the variety of “modern” forms of Buddhism have evolved since the colonial period in dynamic interplay with modernization, colonization, nation-building, and shifting socioeconomic circumstances.
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2016
Lao Buddhism’s histories are deeply fragmented. Most Lao were deported to Siam in the nineteenth century, and after the demise of the French colonial regime, the country was drawn into the Second Indochina War. After two decades of brutal warfare and massive destructions, the Lao communist movement took power in 1975.
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Lao Buddhism’s histories are deeply fragmented. Most Lao were deported to Siam in the nineteenth century, and after the demise of the French colonial regime, the country was drawn into the Second Indochina War. After two decades of brutal warfare and massive destructions, the Lao communist movement took power in 1975.
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2016
This chapter examines the diversity of Buddhist thought and practice in the modern nation of Thailand. The national boundaries that mark the separation between Thailand and the countries of Burma, Malaysia, Laos, and Cambodia are products of the modern era and European colonialism.
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This chapter examines the diversity of Buddhist thought and practice in the modern nation of Thailand. The national boundaries that mark the separation between Thailand and the countries of Burma, Malaysia, Laos, and Cambodia are products of the modern era and European colonialism.
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2016
This chapter examines contemporary Tibetan Buddhism through an exploration of its transformation from a pre-modern form of Vajrayana Buddhism that was localized in Tibet and the wider Himalayan region, to its modern paradigm within the framework of Global Buddhism. In the contemporary period, Tibetan Buddhism inside Tibet is examined in relation to the
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This chapter examines contemporary Tibetan Buddhism through an exploration of its transformation from a pre-modern form of Vajrayana Buddhism that was localized in Tibet and the wider Himalayan region, to its modern paradigm within the framework of Global Buddhism. In the contemporary period, Tibetan Buddhism inside Tibet is examined in relation to the
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Contemporary Buddhism and Education
2016Modern Buddhist education in Asia is an organic part of the project of Buddhist modernization pursued by a number of Buddhist reformers, often as a response to the challenges of imperialism, capitalism, and Christian proselytism. While in some cases (notably in colonial Burma) the resistance to colonialism could translate into the resistance of the ...
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Contemporary Buddhism and Magic
2016This chapter provides an overview of the general substantive, formal, and social characteristics of that diverse assemblage of practices, objects, and actors identified as magical within contemporary Buddhist religious cultures. After critically reflecting on the concept of “magic,” the chapter first rethinks and re-describes the substantive character,
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