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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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Buddhism in Contemporary India
2016This chapter presents an overview of contemporary Indian Buddhism, broadly conceived, highlighting several historical developments, transregional influences, and Indo-centric adaptations within the colonial and postcolonial context. As the “homeland” of Buddhism and central to various contemporary revitalization movements, two themes are of particular ...
David Geary, Sraman Mukherjee
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Contemporary Buddhism in Malaysia
2016This chapter examines Buddhism in Malaysia, from its early history through the contemporary period. It investigates the factors that contributed to the migration and continued presence of Chinese, Thai, Burmese, and Sri Lankan Buddhists to peninsular Malaysia, as well as the causes that led to the founding of their own familiar places of worship ...
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Contemporary Buddhism and Iconography
2016This chapter examines the historical usage of the term “iconography,” how Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) developed it into a fundamental method of art historical analysis, and considers the applications of this method to the contemporary study of Buddhist art.
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Contemporary Indonesian Buddhism and Monotheism
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1987The philosophical basis of the Indonesian state, first framed in 1945, is the Panca Sila or Five Principles. Since 1985 all political and social organizations including religious ones have had to subscribe to the Panca Sila as their sole philosophical principle (Azas Tunggal). The first of the Five Principles is belief in Tuhan Yang Maha Esa, normally,
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