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Buddhism in the modern world : adaptations of an ancient tradition / edited by Steven Heine and Charles S. Prebish.

Contributor(s): Heine, Steven, 1950- | Prebish, Charles S
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195146980 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0195146972 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Buddhism -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 294.3/09/04 LOC classification: BQ316 | .B83 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Aniconism versus iconism in Thai Buddhism / Donald K. Swearer -- The modernization of Sinhalese Buddhism as reflected in the Dambulla cave temples / Nathan Katz -- Varying the vinaya: creative responses to modernity / Charles S. Prebish -- Master Hongyi looks back: a modern man becomes a monk in twentieth-century China / Raoul Birnbaum -- Transitions in the practice and defense of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism / Charles B. Jones -- Won Buddhism: the historical context of Sot'aesan's reformation of Buddhism for the modern world / Bongkil Chung -- Abbreviation or aberration: the role of the Shushōgi in modern Sōtō Zen Buddhism / Steven Heine -- "By imperial edict and shogunal decree": politics and the issue of the ordination platform in modern lay Nichiren Buddhism / Jacqueline I. Stone -- The making of the western Lama / Dan Cozort -- "Liberate the Mahabodhi temple!": socially engaged Buddhism, Dalit-style / Tara N. Doyle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aniconism versus iconism in Thai Buddhism / Donald K. Swearer -- The modernization of Sinhalese Buddhism as reflected in the Dambulla cave temples / Nathan Katz -- Varying the vinaya: creative responses to modernity / Charles S. Prebish -- Master Hongyi looks back: a modern man becomes a monk in twentieth-century China / Raoul Birnbaum -- Transitions in the practice and defense of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism / Charles B. Jones -- Won Buddhism: the historical context of Sot'aesan's reformation of Buddhism for the modern world / Bongkil Chung -- Abbreviation or aberration: the role of the Shushōgi in modern Sōtō Zen Buddhism / Steven Heine -- "By imperial edict and shogunal decree": politics and the issue of the ordination platform in modern lay Nichiren Buddhism / Jacqueline I. Stone -- The making of the western Lama / Dan Cozort -- "Liberate the Mahabodhi temple!": socially engaged Buddhism, Dalit-style / Tara N. Doyle.

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