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Buddhism in the Global Eye

Author :  John S. Harding , Victor Sogen Hori , Alexander Soucy

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Country
United Kingdom
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 9781350140639
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info 232 p,156 x 234mm
Categories Zen Buddhism
Product Weight 373 gms.
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Buddhism in the Global Eye focuses on the importance of a global context and transnational connections for understanding Buddhist modernizing movements. It also explores how Asian agency has been central to the development of modern Buddhism, and provides theoretical reflections that seek to overcome misleading East-West binaries. Using case studies from China, Japan, Vietnam, India, Tibet, Canada, and the USA, the book introduces new research that reveals the permeable nature of certain categories, such as "modern", "global", and "contemporary" Buddhism. In the book, contributors recognize the multiple nodes of intra-Asian and global influence. For example, monks travelled among Asian countries creating networks of information and influence, mutually stimulating each other's modernization movements. The studies demonstrate that in modernization movements, Asian reformers mobilized all available cultural resources both to adapt local forms of Buddhism to a new global context and to shape new foreign concepts to local Asian forms.

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