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Buddhism beyond borders : new perspectives on Buddhism in the United States / edited by Scott A. Mitchell and Natalie E.F. Quli.

Contributor(s): Mitchell, Scott A, 1973- [editor.] | Quli, Natalie E. F, 1973- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture: Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xv, 289 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781438456362; 1438456360Subject(s): Buddhism -- United StatesDDC classification: 294.30973 LOC classification: BQ736 | .B83 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.
Contents:
Theory and method in the study of Buddhism : toward "translocative" analysis / Thomas A. Tweed -- Regionalism within North American Buddhism / Jeff Wilson -- Two Buddhisms, three Buddhisms, and racism / Wakoh Shannon Hickey -- "First White Buddhist priestess" : a case study of Sunya Gladys Pratt at the Tacoma Buddhist temple / Michihiro Ama -- Invoking the dharma protector : Western involvement in the Dorje Shugden controversy / Jeannine Chandler -- Zen at a distance : isolation and the development of distant membership / Helen J. Baroni -- Dharma images and identity in American Buddhism / Richard Hughes Seager -- Telling tales out of school : the fiction of Buddhism / Kimberly Beek -- Mind full of God : "Jewish mindfulness" as an offspring of Western Buddhism in America / Mira Niculescu -- The United States of Jhana : varieties of modern Buddhism in America / Erik Braun -- Buddhism and multiple modernities / David L. McMahan -- Buddhist modernism as narrative : a comparative study of Jodo Shinshu and Zen / Natalie E. F. Quli and Scott A. Mitchell -- Buddhism beyond borders : beyond the rhetorics of rupture / Richard K. Payne.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.

Theory and method in the study of Buddhism : toward "translocative" analysis / Thomas A. Tweed -- Regionalism within North American Buddhism / Jeff Wilson -- Two Buddhisms, three Buddhisms, and racism / Wakoh Shannon Hickey -- "First White Buddhist priestess" : a case study of Sunya Gladys Pratt at the Tacoma Buddhist temple / Michihiro Ama -- Invoking the dharma protector : Western involvement in the Dorje Shugden controversy / Jeannine Chandler -- Zen at a distance : isolation and the development of distant membership / Helen J. Baroni -- Dharma images and identity in American Buddhism / Richard Hughes Seager -- Telling tales out of school : the fiction of Buddhism / Kimberly Beek -- Mind full of God : "Jewish mindfulness" as an offspring of Western Buddhism in America / Mira Niculescu -- The United States of Jhana : varieties of modern Buddhism in America / Erik Braun -- Buddhism and multiple modernities / David L. McMahan -- Buddhist modernism as narrative : a comparative study of Jodo Shinshu and Zen / Natalie E. F. Quli and Scott A. Mitchell -- Buddhism beyond borders : beyond the rhetorics of rupture / Richard K. Payne.

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