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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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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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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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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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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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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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2003
Abstract The history of Buddhism has been characterized by an ongoing tension between attempts to preserve traditional ideals and modes of practice and the need to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Many developments in Buddhist history, such as the infusion of esoteric rituals, the rise of devotionalism and lay movements, and the
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Abstract The history of Buddhism has been characterized by an ongoing tension between attempts to preserve traditional ideals and modes of practice and the need to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Many developments in Buddhist history, such as the infusion of esoteric rituals, the rise of devotionalism and lay movements, and the
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Buddhism and Modernity in Japan An Introduction
2021Orion Klautau, Hans Martin Krämer
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Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity
2009Abstract 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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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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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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Dawning of Buddhism in the West: Modern and Postmodern Buddhism
2020Number of those in the West who relate with Buddhist theories and practices in various ways without adapting Buddhism as a religion are rapidly rising. In this research, in order to contribute to a better comprehension of the place Buddhism occupies in the West, we aim to shed lights on the background of the contemporary situation by examining the ...
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Buddhism: modernization or globalization?
2014In 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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Buddhism and the Discourses of Modernity
2009Abstract Buddhism has created a place for itself in the modern ecology of ideas and practices by placing itself within and between three key discourses of modernity: those of scientific naturalism, Romanticism and Transcendentalism, and Christianity.
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