Buddhist Revivalist Movements

Author : Alan Robert Lopez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137540867

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Buddhist Revivalist Movements by Alan Robert Lopez Pdf

This text provides a comparative investigation of the affinities and differences of two of the most dynamic currents in World Buddhism: Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement. Defying differences in denomination, culture, and historical epochs, these schools revived an unfettered quest for enlightenment and proceeded to independently forge like practices and doctrines. The author examines the teaching gambits and tactics, the methods of practice, the place and story line of teacher biography, and the nature and role of the awakening experience, revealing similar forms deriving from an uncompromising pursuit of awaking, the insistence on self-cultivation, and the preeminent role of the charismatic master. Offering a pertinent review of their encounters with modernism, the book provides a new coherence to these seemingly disparate movements, opening up new avenues for scholars and possibilities for practitioners.

Author : George Doherty Bond
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120810473

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The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka by George Doherty Bond Pdf

In 1956, Theravada Buddhists in Sri Lanka and throughout Southeast Asia celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha`s entry into Nirvana and of the establishment of the Buddhist tradition. This book examines this revival of Theravada Buddhism among the laity of Sri Lanka, analysing its origins and its growth up to the present-day. Within the spectrum of reinterpretations that have comprised the revival, the book focuses on four important types or patterns of reinterpretation and response. It examines the rational reformism of the early Protestant Buddhists led by Anagarika Dharmapala and the conservative neotraditionalism of the Jayanti period.Particular attention is given to two of the most recent and dynamic reforms, the insight meditation movement, breaking with tradition, has opened the path of meditation to lay people, enabling them to seek Nirvana without renouncing the world. The sarvodaya Shramadana movement has addressed the social context, reinterpreting the Buddhist heritage to derive authentic forms of Buddhist social development. Comprising this series of interpretations and options for lay Buddhists, the Buddhist revival represents a new gradual path to Nirvana.

Author : Nayanjot Lahiri,Upinder Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9814762067

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Buddhism in Asia by Nayanjot Lahiri,Upinder Singh Pdf

The birth of Buddhism goes back to the sixth century BCE and, over the centuries, there has been considerable variety as well as considerable change in its doctrines, practices and propagation across the different parts of Asia. This volume showcases the expansion in the religion's contours and popularity in Asia in modern times. Focusing on India, Sri Lanka and China, the essays in the book highlight the cross-fertilization between Buddhism and contemporary discourses which makes the phenomenon of Buddhist revival in Asia unambiguously modern. They also show how this resurgence assumed a great variety of forms depending on the specificities of the historical and cultural context, including Buddhism's encounter with other religious traditions. Continuities with the past are not absent, and revivalist movements have been characterized and propelled by a strong sense of history and yet this, in effect, involved crafting new interpretations of a distant past, and the introduction of new ideas and practices. The term reinvention seems to capture this aspect of dynamic change better than revival. At the same time, as this volume reveals, the choice of terms is not as important as tracing the trajectories of the phenomenon and the awareness that its impact extended far beyond the religious domain into many spheres, including those of cultural practice, national identity and international relations. This is a historically rich and readable volume which will interest general readers as well as students and scholars of history and of Buddhism.

Author : D. C. Ahir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001941652

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The Pioneers of Buddhist Revival in India by D. C. Ahir Pdf

Author : Trevor Ling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000141287

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Buddhist Revival in India by Trevor Ling Pdf

Author : Christopher S. Queen,Sallie B. King
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791428443

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Engaged Buddhism by Christopher S. Queen,Sallie B. King Pdf

This is the first comprehensive coverage of socially and politically engaged Buddhism in Asia, presenting the historical development and institutional forms of engaged Buddhism in the light of traditional Buddhist conceptions of morality, interdependence, and liberation.

Author : Bhagavāndāsa Kabīrapanthī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X004487657

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Revival of Buddhism in India and Role of Dr. Baba Saheb B.R. Ambedkar by Bhagavāndāsa Kabīrapanthī Pdf

Author : Melvyn C. Goldstein,Matthew T. Kapstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520920057

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Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet by Melvyn C. Goldstein,Matthew T. Kapstein Pdf

Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of that revival is the focus of this book. Four leading specialists in Tibetan anthropology and religion conducted case studies in the Tibet autonomous region and among the Tibetans of Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. There they observed the revival of the Buddhist heritage in monastic communities and among laypersons at popular pilgrimages and festivals. Demonstrating how that revival must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a complex process of social, political, and economic adaptation. Buddhism has long been the main source of Tibetans' pride in their culture and country. These essays reveal the vibrancy of that ancient religion in contemporary Tibet and also the problems that religion and Tibetan culture in general are facing in a radically altered world.

Author : Minh T. Nguyen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : WISC:89101331122

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Buddhist Monastic Education and Regional Revival Movements in Early Twentieth Century Vietnam by Minh T. Nguyen Pdf

Author : Sangharakshita
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909314801

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Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism I by Sangharakshita Pdf

One of the most far-reaching of Sangharakshita's contributions to modern Buddhism was giving shape to the Buddhist conversion movement begun by the great Indian statesman and reformer, Dr B.R. Ambedkar. The first part tells the story of how Ambedkar overcame the suffering and struggle of his early years to become the shaper of the Indian constitution and the leader of his people to a new life. The second part is a collection of 36 talks from Sangharakshita's tour of the Buddhist communities in India in 1981-2.

Author : Sven Trakulhun
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824897994

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Confronting Christianity by Sven Trakulhun Pdf

"Confronting Christianity explores the history of religious encounters between Christian missionaries and Thai Buddhists during the nineteenth century, a period of Western imperialism in Southeast Asia that fundamentally transformed Siamese society and religious institutions. From about 1830 onwards, discussions on religion became a central arena of conflict between rival regimes of knowledge in Thailand, confronting traditional Buddhist views on nature and man's existence with the ideals and practices of science and rationalism coming from the West. Protestant missionaries, mostly from the United States, became important brokers of knowledge, as one of their strengths was the ability to offer religion in tandem with modern science and technology. Historian Sven Trakulhun explains why the intrusion of evangelical Christianity strengthened the position of Theravāda Buddhism rather than undermining people's belief in traditional forms of worship. Based on a wide range of Thai and Western primary sources, the volume describes how Christian missionaries unwittingly contributed to the making of what scholars of Buddhism have later rendered as "Buddhist modernism." In response to Christian assaults on the traditional cosmology, Buddhist reformers fashioned an orthodox version of Buddhism that acknowledged the findings of modern science and at the same time deemed even more rational than Christianity. This new orthodoxy became a major source of moral authority for Thai kings and an important ideology for pushing their claims for religious leadership in the Theravāda Buddhist world. Trakulhun offers a thorough study of the encounter between Christianity and Buddhism and places the history of Siamese Theravāda Buddhism within the broad context of global intellectual history"--

Author : James Warner Bjorkman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014955432

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Fundamentalism, Revivalists, and Violence in South Asia by James Warner Bjorkman Pdf

Author : Subhadra Bhikkhu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351338318

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Revival: The Message of Buddhism (1926) by Subhadra Bhikkhu Pdf

The Message of Buddhism is an adaptation of the Buddhist Catechism of the late Subhadra Bhikkhu which was first published in 1888. The eighth and last edition of the Catechism was translated into English by C. T. Strauss, and was published by the Maha-Bodhi Society in 1908.

Author : Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226789507

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Buddhism Betrayed? by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah Pdf

This volume seeks to answer the question of how the Buddhist monks in today's Sri Lanka—given Buddhism's traditionally nonviolent philosophy—are able to participate in the fierce political violence of the Sinhalese against the Tamils.

Author : Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135038342

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Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka by Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne Pdf

Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that ‘Sinhalese Buddhism’ in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial State signified a relatively unbounded (although at times boundary forming) set of practices that facilitated both the inclusion and exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ concepts and people within a particular cosmological frame. Juxtaposing the premodern against the backdrop of colonial modernity, de Silva Wijeyeratne tells us that in contrast modern 'Sinhalese Buddhism/nationalism' is a much more reified and bounded concept, one imagined through a 19th century epistemology whose purpose was not so much inclusion, but a much more radical exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ ideas and people. In this insightful analysis modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, then, emerges through the conjunction of discourse, power and knowledge at a distinct moment in the trajectory of the colonial State. An intrinsic feature of this modernist moment is that premodern categories (such as the cosmic order) were subject to a bureaucratic re-valuation that generated profound consequences for State-society relations and the wider constitutional/legal imaginary. This book goes onto explore how key constitutional and nation-building moments were framed within the cultural milieu of modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism – a nationalism that reveals the power of a re-valued Buddhist cosmic order to still inform the present. Given the intensification of the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist project following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009, this book is of interest to scholars of nationalism, South Asian studies, the anthropology of ritual, and comparative legal history.