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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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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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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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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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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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Theravada Buddhism and Modernization
Journal of Asian and African Studies, 1999The twentieth century saw a revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and India. Though in both countries it was an instrument of choice it played different roles. The Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka led by Anagarika Dhammapala (1864-1993) though a "spin-off" from the Theosophical movement, became a basis for the Simhala renaissance involving a restatement of the
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Western Buddhism: Tradition and Modernity
Religion, 1996The idea of a fragmented, de-traditionalized society has been much discussed over recent years. While Anthony Giddens has suggested that the issues surrounding postmodernism and postmodernity do not constitute the end of modernism and modernity, there has been a significant disjunction in the modernist narrative.
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Recovering Buddhism in Modern China
2016AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Republican-Era Modernity1. Buddhist Activism, Urban Space, and Ambivalent Modernity in 1920s Shanghai, by J. Brooks Jessup2. Buddhism and the Modern Epistemic Space: Buddhist Intellectuals in the Science and Philosophy of Life Debates, by Erik J. Hammerstrom3.
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Afterword: Modernization, Globalization, And Buddhism
2008A common sociological approach to the study of contemporary religion is to understand specific religions in relation to the process of modernization. The use of a theory of modernization framework would help to eliminate some of the obvious confusion in the literature on Buddhism.
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