Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
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Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

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Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

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Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780824858582
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Buddhism

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contents by Buddhist Tradition
  3. Contents by Region and Country
  4. Introduction
  5. Looking Backward
  6. Yangon Airport Tower Communications Worker
  7. The “Insane” Monk
  8. The Choices of a Priest on the Edge of Toyota City
  9. A Witness to Genocide
  10. A Monk between Worlds
  11. A Buddhist Media Pioneer
  12. Embracing Belief and Critique in an Academic Life
  13. Knowing Buddha Organization
  14. Educate, Agitate, Organize
  15. Sinhala Buddhism and Alcohol Consumption
  16. The Builder of Temporary Temples and Golden Corpses
  17. A Rakhine Monk from Bangladesh
  18. Rebuilding Temples after War
  19. Scholar, Reformer, and Activist
  20. A Thai Mural Painter in Singapore
  21. Looking Forward: Social-Psychological Care in a Troubled World
  22. Stabilizing the Rhythms of Life after the Tsunami
  23. President of the Theravada Nuns’ Order of Nepal
  24. The Rise of the “Clinical Religionist”
  25. Activist Temple Wife
  26. Modernizing Buddhist Proselytization in Hong Kong
  27. Modern Miracles of a Female Buddhist Master
  28. The Temple Is a Place of Solutions
  29. Maitreya’s IT Guy
  30. A Female Monk and the Hmong
  31. The Globally Local Priest
  32. Raising the Powerful Girl Child
  33. Buddha Was Tharu
  34. A Modern Taiwanese Educator
  35. Inventor of a Buddhist Alphabet
  36. Trading in the Buddhist Life for Drugs
  37. Two Self-Sacrificing Bureaucrats
  38. A Facebook Buddhist
  39. A Daughter of Lamas, Yogis, and Shamans
  40. Taiwan’s New Age Buddhist
  41. A Modernist Monk with Chinese Characteristics
  42. An Anticommunist Monk and Violence
  43. Looking Inward: New Asceticism in Modern Buddhism
  44. Art, Service, And A High-Rise Temple
  45. State Secularism and the Tibetan Non-monastic Tradition
  46. A Buddhist Spirit Medium
  47. An Act of Merit
  48. A Buddhist Lay Leader
  49. A Modern-Day Burmese Weikza
  50. Negotiating Religion and the State
  51. Mother and Son and Meditation
  52. Reconnecting with the Land (and the Gods)
  53. A Buddha in the Making
  54. The Singing Nun
  55. The Only Buddhist in the Village
  56. Stars for the Drowning
  57. Alien Behavior
  58. The Life and Times of a Shan Buddhist
  59. Looking Outward: Local Buddhists Becoming Global Citizens
  60. Teaching Buddhism as a Second Language
  61. The Empowerment of Buddhist Women
  62. A Buddhist Mickey Mouse
  63. A Twenty-first Century Custodian
  64. The Return of the Dutch
  65. The Blogger Monk in Southern China
  66. Carving Playful Buddhas
  67. Prolific Writer, Cool Blogger
  68. Collector of Magic, Esquire
  69. A Sovereign Body beyond the Nation-State
  70. Post-Monk Life in New Zealand
  71. The First Theravada Bhikkhuni in Vietnam
  72. Monk, Writer, Educator, and International Buddhist
  73. On Being a “Human Being”
  74. Thousand Hands, Thousand Eyes
  75. Further Reading
  76. Contributors
  77. Index