Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8248-5854-4
Verlag: University of Hawaii Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samuels, Jeffrey

Mcdaniel, Justin Thomas

Rowe, Mark Michael

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Samuels is professor of religious studies at Western Kentucky University.

Justin Thomas McDaniel is professor of Buddhist studies and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Michael Rowe is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University.