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Westward dharma : Buddhism beyond Asia / edited by Charles S. Prebish, Martin Baumann.

Contributor(s): Prebish, Charles S | Baumann, Martin, 1960-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xi, 425 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520234901 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0520226259 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Buddhism -- Missions -- History | Buddhism -- History -- 20th century | Globalization -- Religious aspects -- BuddhismDDC classification: 294.3/09 LOC classification: BQ5925 | .W47 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-399) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: paying homage to the Buddha in the west / Martin Baumann and Charles S. Prebish -- Who is a Buddhist? Night-stand Buddhists and other creatures / Thomas A. Tweed -- Spectrum of Buddhist practice in the west / B. Alan Wallace -- Protective amulets and awareness techniques, or how to make sense of Buddhism in the west / Martin Baumann -- Studying the spread and histories of Buddhism in the west: the emergence of western Buddhism as a new subdiscipline within Buddhist studies / Charles S. Prebish -- Buddhism in Europe: past, present, prospects / Martin Baumann -- American Buddhism in the making / Richard Hughes Seager -- Buddhism in Canada / Bruce Matthews -- Development of Buddhism in Australia and New Zealand / Michelle Spuler -- Buddhism in South Africa / Michel Clasquin -- Buddhism in Brazil and its impact on the larger Brazilian society / Frank Usarski -- Buddha in the promised land: outlines of the Buddhist settlement in Israel / Lionel Obadia
Camp Dharma: Japanese-American Buddhist identity and the internment experience of World War II / Duncan Ryuken Williams -- Translating temple: diasporic Buddhism in Florida / Douglas M. Padgett -- Repackaging Zen for the west / David L. McMahan -- Scandals in emerging western Buddhism / Sandra Bell -- Challenge of community / Ajahn Tiradhammo -- Buddhist nuns: changes and challenges / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Neither monk nor nun: western Buddhists as full-time practitioners / Sylvia Wetzel -- Virtues without rules: ethics in the Insight Meditation Movement / Gil Fronsdal -- Roar of the lioness: women's dharma in the west / Judith Simmer-Brown -- Engaged Buddhism: agnosticism, interdependence, globalization / Christopher S. Queen -- Encounter of Buddhism and psychology / Franz Aubrey Metcalf -- "Commodius Vicus of recirculation": Buddhism, art, and modernity / Ian Harris

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-399) and index.

Introduction: paying homage to the Buddha in the west / Martin Baumann and Charles S. Prebish -- Who is a Buddhist? Night-stand Buddhists and other creatures / Thomas A. Tweed -- Spectrum of Buddhist practice in the west / B. Alan Wallace -- Protective amulets and awareness techniques, or how to make sense of Buddhism in the west / Martin Baumann -- Studying the spread and histories of Buddhism in the west: the emergence of western Buddhism as a new subdiscipline within Buddhist studies / Charles S. Prebish -- Buddhism in Europe: past, present, prospects / Martin Baumann -- American Buddhism in the making / Richard Hughes Seager -- Buddhism in Canada / Bruce Matthews -- Development of Buddhism in Australia and New Zealand / Michelle Spuler -- Buddhism in South Africa / Michel Clasquin -- Buddhism in Brazil and its impact on the larger Brazilian society / Frank Usarski -- Buddha in the promised land: outlines of the Buddhist settlement in Israel / Lionel Obadia

Camp Dharma: Japanese-American Buddhist identity and the internment experience of World War II / Duncan Ryuken Williams -- Translating temple: diasporic Buddhism in Florida / Douglas M. Padgett -- Repackaging Zen for the west / David L. McMahan -- Scandals in emerging western Buddhism / Sandra Bell -- Challenge of community / Ajahn Tiradhammo -- Buddhist nuns: changes and challenges / Karma Lekshe Tsomo -- Neither monk nor nun: western Buddhists as full-time practitioners / Sylvia Wetzel -- Virtues without rules: ethics in the Insight Meditation Movement / Gil Fronsdal -- Roar of the lioness: women's dharma in the west / Judith Simmer-Brown -- Engaged Buddhism: agnosticism, interdependence, globalization / Christopher S. Queen -- Encounter of Buddhism and psychology / Franz Aubrey Metcalf -- "Commodius Vicus of recirculation": Buddhism, art, and modernity / Ian Harris

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