Buddhism in the modern world : adaptations of an ancient tradition

Author(s)

• Heine, Steven
• Prebish, Charles S.

Bibliographic Information

Buddhism in the modern world : adaptations of an ancient tradition

edited by Steven Heine and Charles S. Prebish

Oxford University Press, 2003

• : hc
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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

• NCID: BA74223581
• ISBN:
  • 0195146972
  • 0195146980
• LCCN: 2002015649
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 287 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BQ316
  • DC21 : 294.3/09/04
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Buddhism -- History -- 20th century