TransBuddhism

by Bhushan, Nalini; Garfield, Jay L.; Zablocki, Abraham

• ISBN13: 9781558497085
• ISBN10: 1558497080
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

The global spread of Buddhism is giving rise to new forms of religious complexity, both in the West and in Asia. This collection of essays examines the religious and cultural conversations that are occurring in this process from a diverse range of disciplinary, methodological, and literary, perspectives, including philosophy, ethnography, history, and cultural studies.

Author Biography

Nalini Bhushan is associate professor of philosophy at Smith College. Jay, Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy at Smith College. Abraham Zablocki is assistant professor of religious studies at Agnes Scott College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction TransBuddhism: Authenticity in the Context of Transformation	p. 1
Transmission
Discourse, Authority, Demand: The Politics of Early English Publications on Buddhism	p. 21
Transnational Tulkus: The Globalization of Tibetan Buddhist Reincarnation	p. 43
Buddhism in American Prisons	p. 55
Incense at a Funeral: The Rise and Fall of an American Shingon Temple	p. 69
Translation
Translation as Transmission and Transformation	p. 89
Two Monks and the Mountain Village Ideal	p. 105
Text, Tradition, Transformation, and Transmission in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	p. 119
Eastern Influences on Western Sport: Appropriating Buddhism in the G/Name of Golf	p. 135
Transformation
Global Exchange: Women in the Transmission and Transformation of Buddhism	p. 151
Toward an Anatomy of Mourning: Discipline, Devotion, and Liberation in a Freudian-Buddhist Framework	p. 167
Translating Modernity: Buddhist Response to the Thai Environmental Crisis	p. 183
The Transcendentalist Ghost in EcoBuddhism	p. 209
References	p. 239
List of Contributors	p. 253
Note on the Images	p. 255
Index	p. 257
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