Buddhism beyond Borders

New Perspectives on Buddhism in the United States

Scott A. Mitchell, Natalie E. F. Quli

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781438456386
• Topic: Teología y religión
• Subtopic: Budismo

Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Religion Category Buddhism beyond Borders provides a fresh consideration of Buddhism in the American context. It includes both theoretical discussions and case studies to highlight the tension between studies that locate Buddhist communities in regionally specific areas and those that highlight the translocal nature of an increasingly interconnected world. Whereas previous examinations of Buddhism in North America have assumed a more or less essentialized and homogeneous "American" culture, the essays in this volume offer a corrective, situating American Buddhist groups within the framework of globalized cultural flows, while exploring the effects of local forces. Contributors examine regionalism within American Buddhisms, Buddhist identity and ethnicity as academic typologies, Buddhist modernities, the secularization and hybridization of Buddhism, Buddhist fiction, and Buddhist controversies involving the Internet, among other issues.

INDEX

Abramovic, Marina, 120, 121

Acculturation, 4, 50; of ethnic minorities, 5; processes of, 229

Activism: environmental, 6

Adams, Sheridan, 49

Adderson, Caroline, 126

“Address to the International Congress of Historical Sciences” (Bloch), 223

Africa, 6

Ahlstrom, Sydney, 4

Aitken, Anne, 96

Aitken, Robert, 93–109; becomes Dharma heir, 96; designated as independent teacher, 104; difficulty maintaining Corresponding Membership, 104, 105; distance teaching and, x, 104–107; Distant Correspondents program in Zen practices and, 93–109; encourages affiliation with Zen centers, 94; experiments with solutions to isolation, 94; at Honolulu Diamond Sangha, 94, 96, 97; issues discussed with Distant Correspondents, 98, 99; letter-writing program, 94; offers “counseling by mail,” 94, 104–107; recommendations for solo practice, 107, 108; suggestions for contacting instructors and centers by, 105, 106

Albanese, Catherine, 19n7, 172, 174, 228

Almond, Philip, 5

AlSayyad, Nezar, 213

Ama, Michihiro, 6, 230

“American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism” (Tweed), 12

Ames, Diane, 43

Anderson, Benedict, viii, 139

Anderson, Carol, 10, 17n4

Anderson, Laurie, 117

Appadurai, Arjun, viii

Armitage, David, 17n1

Arnal, William, 222

Aro Ter, 86

Art: Buddhist influence in, 113–124; creation of category of “fine” art, 237n19; creation of new forms of, 13; influence of Buddhist teachings on, xi, 224, 225; installation, 119, 120; performance, 119, 120; production of as Dharmic activity, 119, 120; spontaneity in, 13; transcultural collage of, 13; use of Dharma images in, 113–124

Assimilation, 48

At the Waterfall (Abramovic), 120

Australia, 6, 14; affiliated Honolulu Diamond Sangha group in, 96; international communications with, 5; Zen communities in, 96

Awake: Art, Buddhism, and Dimensions of the Mind (San Francisco Zen Center), 117, 122

Awakened Heart Project, 153

Baas, Jacquelyn, 117–119

Bailey, Alison, 38

Baird, Robert, 21

Ba Jin, 133

Baker, Richard, 208

Bangkok 8 (Burdett), 126

Barber, Charles, 237n19

Barlow, Philip, 23

Barnett, Robert, 78, 80

Baroni, Helen, 12, 229

Bastide, Roger, 145, 152

Batchelor, Stephen, 82

Bauman, Zygmunt, 150

Baumann, Martin, 4, 5, 49, 149, 164, 176, 205, 234n6; 199

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface: Buddhism beyond Borders
• Acknowledgments
• Section I. Boundaries, Borders, and Categories
• Section II. Crossing Borders: Transcultural and Translocative Flows
• Section III. Free-Flowing Dharma Discourses
• Section IV. Modernity and Modernities
• Afterword: Buddhism beyond Borders Beyond the Rhetorics of Rupture
• Works Cited
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover