Contemporary Buddhism – serie
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27 produkter
Educating Monks
Minority Buddhism on China's Southwest Border
Av Thomas A. Borchert, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2019
285 kr
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Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and …
Guardians of the Buddha's Home
Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū
Av Jessica Starling, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2019
805 kr
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In Guardians of the Buddha's Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on ""domestic …
Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet
Av Jane E. Caple, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2020
314 kr
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The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. At the end of the 1970s, there were no working monasteries; within a decade, thousands had been reconstructed and repopulated. Most studies have …
Monastic Education in Korea
Teaching Monks About Buddhism in the Modern Age
Av Uri Kaplan, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2020
900 kr
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What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism includes some four thousand canonical …
Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution
The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
Häftad, 2020
300 kr
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Soka Gakkai is Japan's largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members in 192 countries and territories. The religion is best known for its affiliated political party, Komeito (the Clean Government Party), …
Guardians of the Buddha's Home
Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū
Av Jessica Starling, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2020
300 kr
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In Guardians of the Buddha's Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bōmori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on "domestic …
Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds
Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China
Av Brian J. Nichols, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2022
774 kr
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Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols’ pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to …
Buddhism and Business
Merit, Material Wealth, and Morality in the Global Market Economy
Av Trine Brox, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
Häftad, 2021
312 kr
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Although Buddhism is known for emphasizing the importance of detachment from materiality and money, in the last few decades Buddhists have become increasingly ensconced in the global market economy. The contributors to this volume address how Buddhists have become active participants in market …
Monastic Education in Korea
Teaching Monks About Buddhism in the Modern Age
Av Uri Kaplan, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2021
342 kr
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What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism includes some four thousand canonical …
Buddhist Tourism in Asia
Av Courtney Bruntz, Brooke Schedneck
Häftad, 2021
328 kr
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This innovative collaborative work-the first to focus on Buddhist tourism-explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history …
From the Mountains to the Cities
A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea
Häftad, 2021
300 kr
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At the start of the twentieth century, the Korean Buddhist tradition was arguably at the lowest point in its 1,500-year history in the peninsula. Discriminatory policies and punitive measures imposed on the monastic community during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) had severely weakened Buddhist …
Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds
Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China
Av Brian J. Nichols, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2023
300 kr
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Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols’s pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to …
Living with the Vinaya
An Ethnography of Monasticism in Myanmar
Av Ryosuke Kuramoto, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2024
844 kr
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Around the first century BCE, Buddhist monks formed monasteries and established relationships with kings and lay people. The rules monks live by, the Vinaya, are a pivotal source of meaning for them and their dealings with society and form the basis of multiple monasticisms across geographical …
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas
Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
Av Natasha Heller, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2025
971 kr
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In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention …
Living with the Vinaya
An Ethnography of Monasticism in Myanmar
Av Ryosuke Kuramoto, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2026
328 kr
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Around the first century BCE, Buddhist monks formed monasteries and established relationships with kings and lay people. The rules monks live by, the Vinaya, are a pivotal source of meaning for them and their dealings with society and form the basis of multiple monasticisms across geographical …
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas
Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
Av Natasha Heller, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2026
360 kr
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In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention …
Worldly Engagements
Buddhist Monasticism and Masculinity Among the Tai Lue of Southwest China
Av Roger Casas, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2025
847 kr
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The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China’s southern Yunnan province, are the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is historically and overwhelmingly dominant. Following years of repression during the Maoist era, in the 1980s Buddhism among the Lue …
Temples and Teahouses
Buddhism and Secularity in Twenty-First-Century China
Av Gareth Fisher, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2026
847 kr
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Temples and Teahouses delves into the daily lives of Buddhist monastics, lay practitioners, entrepreneurs, and government officials working to expand Buddhism in a highly secular country. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in cities throughout China, author Gareth Fisher explores how …
Architects of Buddhist Leisure
Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks
Av Justin Thomas McDaniel, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2016
900 kr
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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 …
Educating Monks
Minority Buddhism on China's Southwest Border
Av Thomas A. Borchert, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2017
900 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and …
Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet
Av Jane E. Caple, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2019
900 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. At the end of the 1970s, there were no working monasteries; within a decade, thousands had been reconstructed and repopulated. Most studies have …
From the Mountains to the Cities
A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea
Inbunden, 2018
900 kr
Tillfälligt slut
At the start of the twentieth century, the Korean Buddhist tradition was arguably at the lowest point in its 1,500-year history in the peninsula. Discriminatory policies and punitive measures imposed on the monastic community during the Choson dynasty (1392–1910) had severely weakened Buddhist …
From Indra's Net to Internet
Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas
Av Daniel Veidlinger, Mark Michael Rowe
Inbunden, 2018
900 kr
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Buddhism is gaining popularity among Internet users at a faster rate than any other religion. In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the …
Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution
The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2018
900 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Soka Gakkai is Japan's largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members in 192 countries and territories. The religion is best known for its affiliated political party, Komeito (the Clean Government Party), …
Buddhist Tourism in Asia
Av Courtney Bruntz, Brooke Schedneck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
900 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This innovative collaborative work-the first to focus on Buddhist tourism-explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history …
Buddhism and Business
Merit, Material Wealth, and Morality in the Global Market Economy
Av Trine Brox, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
Inbunden, 2020
900 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Although Buddhism is known for emphasizing the importance of detachment from materiality and money, in the last few decades Buddhists have become increasingly ensconced in the global market economy. The contributors to this volume address how Buddhists have become active participants in market …
From Indra’s Net to Internet
Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas
Av Daniel Veidlinger, Mark Michael Rowe
Häftad, 2021
300 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the mid-first millennium BCE. He uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent evolution …
