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Buddhism and Modernity

2020
The academic research of the Catholic priest Du Erwei generated strong responses from Buddhists. Du claimed that Buddhism was descended from earlier lunar religion—and thus, implicitly, that it embodied a “primitive” stage of religious thought. As an anthropologist and scholar affiliated with National Taiwan University, Du drew from voluminous academic
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Buddhism in modern China

Religion in Communist Lands, 1977
Could Buddhism in China remain unaffected by the transformation of the Chinese nation into a modern state? By the beginning of the 2oth century it was apparent to many Chinese that it could not. The late-Ch'ing dynasty (i644-1911) novelist, Li Po-yuan (i867-i9o6), expresses the dilemma facing Chinese Buddhists in his novel, A Brief History of ...
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Buddhism in the Modern World

Ethnos, 2012
David L. McMahan, ed. 2012. Buddhism in the Modern World. London and New York: Routledge. 329 pp.ISBN: 978-0-415-78015-5 Buddhism in the Modern World is a very welcome addition to the burgeoning li...
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Buddhism: modernization or globalization?

2014
In spring 2013, in Lyon, France, a group of Chinese Buddhists in yellow robes took part in a conference at a local university of social sciences and humanities. The group was led by the head monk of the Beijing Longquan Monastery, who was touring France and Europe, after having sent out proposals to give talks on Buddhism. The conference was nothing
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Meditation in Modern Buddhism

2010
In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassanā meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns) living in monastic communities. For them, meditation becomes a central focus of life and a way to transform the self. This ethnographic account of a thriving
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Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity

2009
Abstract What many Americans and Europeans understand by “Buddhism” is actually a hybrid of a number of Buddhist traditions that have cross-fertilized with the dominant discourses of western modernity, especially those rooted in Enlightenment rationalism, Romanticism, and Protestant Christianity.
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