Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality write by Birgit Kellner. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over 2500 years, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural interaction that in turn shaped Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. While the cultural plurality of Buddhism has often been remarked upon, the transcultural processes that constitute this plurality, and their long-term effects, have scarcely been studied as a topic in their own right. The contributions to this volume present detailed case studies ranging across different time periods, regions and disciplines, and they address methodological challenges as well as theoretical problems. In addition to casting a spotlight on topics as diverse as the role of trade contacts in the early spread of Buddhism, the hybrid nature of religious practices in Japan or Indo-Tibetan relations in Tibetan polemical literature, the individual papers jointly raise the question as to whether there might be something distinct about how Buddhism steers and influences forms of cultural exchange, and is in turn shaped by modalities of cultural interaction throughout Asian, as well as global, history. The volume is intended to demonstrate the need for investigating transcultural dynamics more closely in the study of Buddhism, and to suggest new avenues for Buddhist Studies.
Buddhism and Cultural Studies
Buddhism and Cultural Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism and Cultural Studies write by Edwin Ng. This book was released on 2016-06-30. Buddhism and Cultural Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial ‘Western Buddhist’ convert who, despite growing up in Singapore where Buddhism was a part of his disaporic ‘Chinese’ ancestral heritage, only embraced Buddhism when he migrated to Australia and discovered Western translations of Buddhist teachings. Through an autoethnography of the author’s Buddhist-inspired pursuit of an academic profession, the book develops and professes a non-doctrinal understanding of faith that may be pertinent to ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’ alike, inviting the academic reader in particular to consider the (unacknowledged) role of faith in supporting scholarly practice. Striking a careful balance between critical analysis and self-reflexive inquiry, the book performs in all senses of the word, a profession of faith.
Curators of the Buddha
Curators of the Buddha - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curators of the Buddha write by Donald S. Lopez Jr.. This book was released on 1995-08-15. Curators of the Buddha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, incorporating insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies. Social, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of Buddhist studies are discussed.
Buddhism & Science
Buddhism & Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism & Science write by B. Alan Wallace. This book was released on 2004. Buddhism & Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reflecting its wide variety of topics, Buddhism and science is comprised of three sections. The first presents two historical overviews of the engagements between Buddhism and modern science or rather how Buddhism and modern science have definced, rivaled and complemented one another. The second describes the ways Buddhism and the cognitive sciences inform each other, the third address point of intersection between Buddhsim and the physical sciences. On the broadest level this work illuminates how different ways of exploring the nature of human identity the mind, and the universe at large can enrich and enlighten one another.
The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture
The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture write by John Kieschnick. This book was released on 2003-04-06. The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buddhism had a profound effect not only on Chinese philosophy and ritual, but also on the material culture of China. Examining the impact of books, bridges, sugar, tea and the chair, amongst other things, this text looks at how attitudes to such novelties affected the history of Chinese Buddhism.
