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The life of Buddhism

Author: Frank Reynolds; Jason A Carbine
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Series: Life of religion, 1.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Bringing together 15 essays by international Buddhist scholars, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the life of Buddhism. The contributors focus on a range of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from New York to Tibet.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Frank Reynolds; Jason A Carbine
ISBN: 0520211057 9780520211056 0520223373 9780520223370
OCLC Number: 43903474
Description: x, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Temples, sacred objects, and associated rituals --
Temples and monastic complexes (Japan) --
"A view of temple life and practice" / James Bissett Pratt --
Image consecrations (Thailand) --
"Creating and disseminating the sacred" / Donald K. Swearer --
State rituals and ceremonies (Myanma) --
"A tooth relic and the legitimation of power" / Juliane Schober --
Village rituals and ceremonies (Thailand) --
"Bun Phraawes" / S.J. Tambiah --
pt. 2. Monastic practices --
The ordination of monks and novices (Korea) --
"Ordination in the Chogye order" / Robert E. Buswell --
Female renunciants (Myanma[r]/Burma) --
"Theravadin religious women" / Hiroko Kawanami --
Meditation (Japan) --
"A morning star meditation" / Taiko Yamasaki --
The monastic quest: a biographical example (Tibet) --
"The biography of a nun" / Hanna Havnevik --
Monastic funerals (Thailand) --
"The cremation of a senior monk" / Charles F. Keyes --
pt. 3. Lay practices --
Lay identity and participation (China) --
"Lay praxis in a Mahayana context" / Holmes Welch --
Cosmology and law (Tibet) --
"Buddhist secular law: doctrines in context" / Rebecca Redwood French --
Cosmology and healing (Sri Lanka) --
"Yaktovil: the role of the Buddha and Dhamma" / Jason A. Carbine --
Devotional rituals: recent innovations (Sri Lanka) --
"A new theravadin liturgy" / Richard Gombrich --
Death and beyond (Japan) --
"Memorializing one's Mizuko" / William R. LaFleur --
pt. 4. Buddhism in the West --
An American example --
"Transmitting the Dharma" / Philip Kapleau.
Series Title: Life of religion, 1.
Responsibility: edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Jason A. Carbine.
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A collection of essays, which offer a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism." It highlights the actual behavior and lived experience of Buddhist adherents. It also discusses the construction  Read more...

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