Buddhist Responses To Globalization PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Buddhist Responses To Globalization PDF full book. Access full book title Buddhist Responses To Globalization.
Author | : Leah Kalmanson |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 073918055X |
Download Buddhist Responses to Globalization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From various philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors show that Buddhism—arguably the world’s first transnational religion—is a rich resource for navigating today's interconnected world. Buddhist Responses to Globalization addresses globalization as a contemporary phenomenon, marked by economic, cultural, and political deterritorialization, and also proposes concrete strategies for improving global conditions in light of these facts. Topics include Buddhist analyses of both capitalist and materialist economies; Buddhist religious syncretism in highly multicultural areas such as Honolulu; the changing face of Buddhism through the work of public intellectuals such as Alice Walker; and Buddhist responses to a range of issues including reparations and restorative justice, economic inequality, spirituality and political activism, cultural homogenization and nihilism, and feminist critique. In short, the book looks to bring Buddhist ideas and practices into direct and meaningful, yet critical, engagement with both the facts and theories of globalization.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Globalization from a Buddhist Perspective Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stuart Chandler |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0824862406 |
Download Establishing a Pure Land on Earth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With more than 150 temples in thirty countries, Foguangshan has developed over the last thirty-five years into one of the world’s largest and most influential Chinese Buddhist movements. The result of two years of fieldwork in Foguangshan temples in Taiwan, the U.S., Australia, and South Africa, this volume is an unprecedented examination of the inner workings of a dynamic and innovative religious movement. Based on direct observations, private interviews, and careful textual and historical analysis, Stuart Chandler looks at the challenges faced by Foguangshan’s leader, Master Xingyun, and his followers as they try to adhere to traditional practices and values while tapping into the advantages afforded by modern, global society. Foguangshan’s slogans (“Humanistic Buddhism” and “Establishing a Pure Land on Earth”) are placed in historical context to reveal their role in shaping the group’s attitudes toward capitalism, women’s rights, and democracy, as well as toward the traditional Chinese virtue of filial piety and the Chinese Buddhist concept of “links of affinity” (jieyuan). Chandler goes on to analyze Foguangshan’s educational system and its understanding of how precepts relate to contemporary problems such as abortion and capital punishment. The book’s final chapters consider the cultural and political dynamics at play in Foguangshan’s ambitious attempt to spread Humanistic Buddhism around the world and how its followers have reinterpreted the Buddhist ideal of homelessness to take advantage of the spiritual potentialities of people’s lives as global citizens.
Author | : D C |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Buddhists |
ISBN | : 9788178804620 |
Download Globalization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Study conducted in Akola District of Maharashtra, India.
Author | : Richard Hughes Seager |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006-03-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520939042 |
Download Encountering the Dharma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This engaging, deeply personal book, illuminating the search for meaning in today’s world, offers a rare insider’s look at Soka Gakkai Buddhism, one of Japan’s most influential and controversial religious movements, and one that is experiencing explosive growth around the world. Unique for its multiethnic make-up, Gakkai Buddhists can be found in more than 100 countries from Japan to Brazil to the United States and Germany. In Encountering the Dharma, Richard Seager, an American professor of religion trying to come to terms with the death of his wife, travels to Japan in search of the spirit of the Soka Gakkai. This book tells of his journey toward understanding in a compelling narrative woven out of his observations, reflections, and interviews, including several rare one-on-one meetings with Soka Gakkai president Daisaku Ikeda. Along the way, Seager also explores broad-ranging controversies arising from the Soka Gakkai’s efforts to rebuild post-war Japan, its struggles with an ancient priesthood, and its motives for propagating Buddhism around the world. One turning point in his understanding comes as Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai strike an authentically Buddhist response to the events of September 11, 2001.
Author | : Linda Learman |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2004-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824828103 |
Download Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This insightful volume dispels the common notion that Buddhism is not a missionary religion by revealing Asian Buddhists as active agents in the propagation of their faith. It presents at the same time a new framework with which to study missionary activity in both Buddhist and other religious traditions. Included are case studies of Theravada, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhist teachers and congregations, as well as the Pure Land, Shingon, Zen, and Soka Gakkai traditions of Japan. Contributors examine both foreign and domestic missions and the activities of emigrant communities, showing the resources and strategies garnered by late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Buddhists who worked to uphold and further their respective traditions, often under difficult circumstances. Based on anthropological fieldwork and historical research, the essays break new ground and provide better analytical tools for studying mission activity than previously available. They provide instructive comparisons with Anglo-American Protestant missionary thinking and offer insights into the internal dynamics of Sri Lankan and Japanese missions as they make their way in Protestant and Catholic societies. Also included are nuanced studies of two major missionary figures in late twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism and a fascinating look at the present Dalai Lama’s relationships with his devotees and the American government, viewed through an exposition of the abiding tradition within Tibetan Buddhism that combines mission activity with the political goals of exiled lamas. Contributors: Stuart Chandler; Peter B. Clarke; C. Julia Huang; Steven Kemper; Linda Learman; Sarah LeVine; Richard K. Payne; Cristina Rocha; George J. Tanabe, Jr.; Gray Tuttle.
Author | : Peter D. Hershock |
Publisher | : Suny Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438444581 |
Download Valuing Diversity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.
Author | : Douglas S. Duckworth |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781781799062 |
Download Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is it true that Buddhists are tolerant of other religions?To what extent are Buddhists tolerant?Is nirvana held to be attainable through Buddhism alone?If so, through which Buddhist tradition?Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity approaches these questions and others from perspectives representing Therav?din and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism.Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces, as Buddhists, and traditions Buddhists have encountered, continue to change (after all, all conditioned things are impermanent). The present time is a particularly dynamic moment to take stock of Buddhist attitudes toward religious others, as Buddhist identities are being renegotiated in unprecedented ways in our increasingly globalized age.This volume brings together a spectrum of views that are not often found side-by-side or in a meaningful dialogue with each other. It breaks new ground to further understanding and constructive encounters across Buddhist traditions and between other religious traditions and Buddhists.
Author | : Tannie Liu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : University of Ottawa theses |
ISBN | : |
Download Globalization and Chinese Buddhism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Douglas S. Duckworth |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (Indonesia) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781781799048 |
Download Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume discusses contemporary Buddhist responses to religious diversity from Theravādin and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives. Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces, as Buddhists, and traditions Buddhists have encountered, continue to change (after all, all conditioned things are impermanent). The present time is a particularly dynamic moment to take stock of Buddhist attitudes toward religious others, as Buddhist identities are being renegotiated in unprecedented ways in our increasingly globalized age. Is it true that Buddhists are tolerant of other religions? To what extent are Buddhists tolerant? Is nirvana held to be attainable through Buddhism alone? If so, through which Buddhist tradition? This volume approaches these questions and others from perspectives representing Theravādin and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism. The chapters herein bring together a spectrum of views that are not often found side-by-side in a single volume or in a meaningful dialogue with each other, needless to mention with other religions. This volume seeks to remedy this situation, and break new ground to enable further dialogue, understanding, and constructive encounters across Buddhist traditions and between other religious traditions and Buddhists.