Adaptation and Developments in Western Buddhism: Socially Engaged Buddhism in the UK, Phil Henry
Автор: Phil Henry Название: Adaptation and Developments in Western Buddhism: Socially Engaged Buddhism in the UK ISBN: 1474223788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474223782 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In recent years, there has been a growing academic acknowledgment around the world of a contemporary Buddhist phenomenon described as Engaged, or Socially Engaged Buddhism (SEB). It is a contested phenomenon variously associated with finding Buddhist solutions for social, political and ecological problems. The debate about its origins, practice and legitimacy has stirred academics and practitioners alike.
Firstly, does such an approach to Buddhist practice constitute a departure with the past, in which case a new expression of an ancient practice is being experienced all around us? Or is this really a continuity of practice, adapted to inform current understanding given that some would describe Buddhism as always having been engaged? Adaptation and Developments in Western Buddhism examines the UK Socially Engaged Buddhist experience captured through a series of five case studies of Buddhist groups and a survey undertaken over two years in the field.
The volume is a ground-breaking and benchmark analysis of Socially Engaged Buddhism in the UK, drawing for the first time on evidence from practitioner's experiences with which to characterise the previously dichotomous academic debate. Ultimately, the volume locates Socially Engaged Buddhism in the UK and places it within the broader and global context of an emerging "Western Buddhism," characterising the phenomenon and its relationships to the wider Buddhist world.
Автор: Deal William E. Название: Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism ISBN: 1405167017 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405167017 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23180.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism offers a comprehensive, nuanced, and chronological account of the evolution of Buddhist religion in Japan from the sixth century to the present day.
Автор: Justin Thomas McDaniel Название: Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia`s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks ISBN: 082487675X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824876753 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Su?i Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement.Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
Автор: Perrett Название: An Introduction to Indian Philosophy ISBN: 052161869X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521618694 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This introduction is thematically structured, wide-ranging and philosophically rigorous, providing the technical details of Indian philosophical arguments and their theoretical motivations, without being too technical for beginners. Including a glossary, guide to Sanskrit pronunciation and translated texts, it is an essential resource for beginners and advanced students of Indian philosophy.
Автор: Allen, William Cully Название: Sanskrit debate ISBN: 1433117584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433117589 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 82810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu’s ‘V?m?atik?’ versus Kum?rila’s ‘Nir?lambanav?da’ illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pram?na??stra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other’s tradition of thought and practice. In the third century CE, Vasubandhu, a Buddhist philosopher-monk, proposed that the entire world of lived experience is a matter of mind only through his V?m?atik? (Twenty Verses). In the seventh century CE, Kum?rila, a Hindu philosopher-priest, composed Nir?lambanav?da (Non-Sensory Limit Debate) to establish the objective reality of objects by refuting Vasubandhu’s claim that objects experienced in waking life are not different from objects experienced in dreams. Kum?rila rigorously employs formal rules and regulations of Indian logic and debate to demonstrate that Vasubandhu’s assertion is totally irrational and incoherent. V?m?atik? ranks among the world’s most misunderstood texts but Kum?rila’s historic refutation allows V?m?atik? to be read in its own text-historical context. This compelling, radically revolutionary re-reading of V?m?atik? delineates a hermeneutic of humor indispensable to discerning its medicinal message. In V?m?atik?, Vasubandhu employs the form of professional Sanskrit logic and debate as a guise and a ruse to ridicule the entire enterprise of Indian philosophy. Vasubandhu critiques all Indian theories of epistemology and ontology and claims that both how we know and what we know are acts of the imagination.
Автор: William E. Deal,Brian Ruppert Название: A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism ISBN: 1405167009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405167000 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 74920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism offers a comprehensive, nuanced, and chronological account of the evolution of Buddhist religion in Japan from the sixth century to the present day.
Автор: Yu-Shuang Yao Название: Taiwan`s Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact ISBN: 9004217479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004217478 Издательство: Brill Цена: 102270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book is the first comprehensive sociological account and in-depth analysis of a new Chinese Buddhist movement, known as Tzu Chi (otherwise, the Buddhist Compassion Merit Society). Based in Taiwan, it was founded in 1966 and still led by a female Buddhist master – Master Cheng Yen. Its members are laity, and women play a major role. The main focus of the movement is medical charity – to ease and if possible prevent suffering and to teach ethics to the wealthy; at the same time, it also offers members a religion and a way of life. Recruitment typically attracts people from the urban middle class. With some 3.5 million members and a very low drop-out rate, Tzu Chi is extraordinarily successful, and has spread to other parts of the world, not least mainland China where it is attracting the attention of the general public and the media. The book stands in the Anglo-American tradition of the sociology of religion; it also draws on the author’s knowledge of Buddhist history. The data come from participant observation and many long interviews. It will be of particular interest to students of new religious movements, religious studies in contemporary China, and studies in ethics and social change in East Asia.
Автор: Li Название: Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems ISBN: 1107093503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107093508 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Written by a team of leading scholars, this comprehensive anthology is the first English-language volume focused on Chinese metaphysics. It provides an invaluable tool for students and readers interested in metaphysics and Chinese philosophy, expanding their understanding and appreciation of the key philosophical traditions in China from pre-Qin to modern times.
Автор: Gregory Smits Название: Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics ISBN: 0824873793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824873790 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was subordinate to its larger neighbors, China and Japan, yet an integral part of neither. A Japanese invasion force from Satsuma had conquered the kingdom in 1609, resulting in its partial incorporation into Tokugawa Japan's bakuhan state. Given Ryukyu's long-standing ties with China and East Asian foreign relations following the rise of the Qing dynasty, however, the bakufu maintained only an indirect link with Ryukyu from the mid-seventeenth century onward. Thus Ryukyu was able to exist as a quasi-independent kingdom for more than two centuries-albeit amidst a complex web of trade and diplomatic agreements involving the bakufu, Satsuma, Fujian, and Beijing. During this time, Ryukyu's ambiguous position relative to China and Japan prompted its elites to fashion their own visions of Ryukyuan identity. Created in a dialogic relationship to both a Chinese and Japanese Other, these visions informed political programs intended to remake Ryukyu.In this innovative and provocative study, Gregory Smits explores early-modern perceptions of Ryukyu and their effect on its political culture and institutions. He describes the major historical circumstances that informed early-modern discourses of Ryukyuan identity and examines the strategies used by leading intellectual and political figures to fashion, promote, and implement their visions of Ryukyu. Early-modern visions of Ryukyu were based on Confucianism, Buddhism, and other ideologies of the time. Eventually one vision prevailed, becoming the theoretical basis of the early-modern state by the middle of the eighteenth century. Employing elements of Confucianism, the scholar and government official Sai On (1682-1761) argued that the kingdom's destiny lay primarily with Ryukyuans themselves and that moral parity with Japan and China was within its grasp. Despite Satsuma's control over its diplomatic and economic affairs, Sai envisioned Ryukyu as an ideal Confucian state with government and state rituals based on the Chinese model. In examining Sai's thought and political program, this volume sheds new light on Confucian praxis and, conversely, uncovers one variety of an East Asian ""prenational"" imagined political/cultural community.
Автор: Sharon A. Suh Название: Silver Screen Buddha: Buddhism in Asian and Western Film ISBN: 1441189254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441189257 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How do contemporary films depict Buddhists and Buddhism? What aspects of the Buddhist tradition are these films keeping from our view? By repeatedly romanticizing the meditating monk, what kinds of Buddhisms and Buddhists are missing in these films and why?
Silver Screen Buddha is the first book to explore the intersecting representations of Buddhism, race, and gender in contemporary films. Sharon A. Suh examines the cinematic encounter with Buddhism that has flourished in Asia and in the West in the past century - from images of Shangri-La in Frank Capra's 1937 Lost Horizon to Kim Ki-Duk's 2003 international box office success Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring.
The book helps readers see that representations of Buddhism in Asia and in the West are fraught with political, gendered, and racist undertones. Silver Screen Buddha draws significant attention to ordinary lay Buddhism, a form of the tradition given little play in popular film. By uncovering the differences between a fictionalized, commodified, and exoticized Buddhism, Silver Screen Buddha brings to light expressions of the tradition that highlight laity and women, on the one hand, and Asian and Asian Americans, on the other. Suh engages in a re-visioning of Buddhism that expands the popular understanding of the tradition, moving from the dominance of meditating monks to the everyday world of raced, gendered, and embodied lay Buddhists.
Автор: Hyung-Hi Kim Название: La carriere du Bodhisattva dans l`Avata?saka-sutra: Materiaux pour l`etude de l`Avata?saka-sutra et ses commentaires chinois ISBN: 3034310781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034310789 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 88570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: L’ecole de l’Ornementation fleurie (chinois Huayan, qui remonte au sanscrit Avata?saka), d’inspiration philosophique et mystique, est une des manifestations majeures du bouddhisme d’Asie orientale (Chine, Coree, Japon). Cet ouvrage presente quelques passages de commentaires chinois du texte canonique de base de l’ecole, traduite en francais et annotes. Ce texte porte le titre sanscrit de Avata?saka-sutra (chinois Huayanjing « Texte doctrinal de l’Ornementation fleurie »). Les commentaires chinois choisis sont deux commentaires perpetuels, le Tanxuanji de Fazang (643–712), un moine eminent, systematisateur de la doctrine Huayan, et le Xinhuayanjinglun de Li Tongxuan (635–730), un laique et un grand mystique. Ils concernent des points essentiels du systeme chinois de l’Ornementation fleurie : l’interpenetration universelle de toutes choses, le symbolisme luxuriant des retributions karmiques, le role de la foi dans le progres spirituel et le cursus des cinq enseignements.
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