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Titre(s) : A Buddhist crossroads [Texte imprimé] : pioneer western Buddhists and Asian networks 1860-1960 / edited by Brian Bocking, Phibul Choompolpaisal, Laurence Cox and Alicia Turner
Publication : London : Routledge, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-192 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 1. Introduction / Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking ; 2. Flagging up
Buddhism / Brian Bocking ; 3. Buddhist councils in a time of transition / Tilman
Frasch ; 4. Three boys on a great vehicle / Shin'ichi Yoshinaga ; 5. The Bible,
the bottle and the knile / Alicia Turner ; 6. Ananda Metteyya / Elizabeth J. Harris
; 7 Tai-Burmese-Lao Buddhisms in the 'modernizing' of Ban Thawai (Bangkok) ; 8. Rethinking
early western Buddhists / Laurence Cox ; Like embers hidden in ashes, or jewels encrusted
in stone' / Douglas Ober ; 9. Elective affinities / Andrew Skilton ; 10. Brooklyn
Bhikkhu / Philip Deslippe.
Note(s) : Les chapitres de cet ouvrage ont été publiés dans "Contemporary Buddhism : an interdiciplinary
journal", volume 14, numéro 1, Mai 2013. - Notes bibliogr. Index
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buddhism in Asia was transformed by the
impact of colonial modernity and new technologies and began to spread in earnest to
the West. Transnational networking among Asian Buddhists and early western converts
engendered pioneering attempts to develop new kinds of Buddhism for a globalized world,
in ways not controlled by any single sect or region. Drawing on new research by scholars
worldwide, this book brings together some of the most extraordinary episodes and personalities
of a period of almost a century from 1860-1960. Examples include Indian intellectuals
who saw Buddhism as a homegrown path for a modern post-colonial future, poor whites
'going native' as Asian monks, a Brooklyn-born monk who sought to convert Mussolini,
and the failed 1950s attempt to train British monks to establish a Thai sangha in
Britain. Some of these stories represent creative failures, paths not taken, which
may show us alternative possibilities for a more diverse Buddhism in a world dominated
by religious nationalisms. Other pioneers paved the way for the mainstreaming of new
forms of Buddhism in later decades, in time for the post-1960s takeoff of 'global
Buddhism'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bocking, Brian (1951-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Pioneer western Buddhists and Asian networks 1860-1960
Sujet(s) : Philosophie bouddhique
Bouddhisme -- 19e siècle
Bouddhisme -- 20e siècle
Bouddhisme -- Occident
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1-138-78958-5. - ISBN 978-1-138-78958-6 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43813833c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43813833
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