Methods in Buddhist studies : essays in honor of Richard K. Payne
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Methods in Buddhist studies : essays in honor of Richard K. Payne
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-234) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Both a demonstration of and critical self-reflection on method, this book explores how methodologies shape our understanding of the diversity of Buddhist traditions in the past and the present. International contributors from the West and Asia explore case studies and reflect on methods in the study of Buddhism, united in their debt to Richard K. Payne, the influential Buddhist studies scholar.
Methods in Buddhist Studies features new translations of Buddhist works as well as ethnographic studies on contemporary Buddhism in the United States and China. Topics discussed include Buddhist practices in relation to food, material culture, and imperial rituals; the development of modern Buddhist universities; the construction of the canon from the perspective of history, textual analysis, and ritual studies; and the ethical obligations of scholars toward the subject of Buddhism itself.
Chapters are drawn from Payne's students and his colleagues, demonstrating the breadth of his intellectual interests. Payne's scholarship has left a remarkable impact on the field, making this volume essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Buddhism and Buddhist studies.
Table of Contents
Notes On Contributors
Preface, Judith Berling (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA)
Introduction: On Maps, Elephants, and Buddhists, Scott A. Mitchell (Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA)
Part 1: Historical Studies
1. When Food Becomes Trespass: Buddhism and the Kami in Local Economies, Lisa Grumbach (Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan and the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA)
2. Making the Modern Priest: The Otani Denomination's Proto-University and Debates about Clerical Education in the Early Meiji Period, Victoria R. Montrose (University of Southern California, USA)
3. Taking the Vajrayana to Sukhavati, Aaron P. Proffitt (, University at Albany-SUNY, USA)
Part 2: Textual Studies
4. Yijing's Sciptural Text about Impermanence (T. 801), Charles Willemen (International Buddhist College, Thailand)
5. Dualistic and Bifunctional Spirits: A Translation of the Oni no Shikogusa, Takuya Hino (Komazawa University, Japan)
6. A Note Concerning Contemplation of the Marks of the Buddha, Charles D. Orzech (Colby College, Maine, USA)
Part 3: Ethnographic Studies
7. Buddhism, Consumerism, and the Chinese Millennial, Courtney Bruntz (Doane University, USA)
8. Describing the (Nonexistent?) Elephant: Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Asian American Buddhists, Chenxing Han (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA)
Part 4: Theoretical Concerns
9. Is a Dazang jing a Canon? On the Nature of Chinese Buddhist Textual Anthologies, Charles B. Jones (University of America, Washington, USA)
10. Our Buddhadharma, Our Buddhist Dharma, Franz Metcalf (California State University, USA)
11. On Authenticity: Scholarship, the Insight Movement, and White Authority, Natalie Fisk Quli (Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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