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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.)

ISBN: 9780824858582

Content: This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes. The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a “new asceticism,” while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes—looking backward, forward, inward, and outward—reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Contents by Buddhist Tradition -- , Contents by Region and Country -- , Introduction -- , Looking Backward -- , Yangon Airport Tower Communications Worker -- , The “Insane” Monk -- , The Choices of a Priest on the Edge of Toyota City -- , A Witness to Genocide -- , A Monk between Worlds -- , A Buddhist Media Pioneer -- , Embracing Belief and Critique in an Academic Life -- , Knowing Buddha Organization -- , Educate, Agitate, Organize -- , Sinhala Buddhism and Alcohol Consumption -- , The Builder of Temporary Temples and Golden Corpses -- , A Rakhine Monk from Bangladesh -- , Rebuilding Temples after War -- , Scholar, Reformer, and Activist -- , A Thai Mural Painter in Singapore -- , Looking Forward: Social-Psychological Care in a Troubled World -- , Stabilizing the Rhythms of Life after the Tsunami -- , President of the Theravada Nuns’ Order of Nepal -- , The Rise of the “Clinical Religionist” -- , Activist Temple Wife -- , Modernizing Buddhist Proselytization in Hong Kong -- , Modern Miracles of a Female Buddhist Master -- , The Temple Is a Place of Solutions -- , Maitreya’s IT Guy -- , A Female Monk and the Hmong -- , The Globally Local Priest -- , Raising the Powerful Girl Child -- , Buddha Was Tharu -- , A Modern Taiwanese Educator -- , Inventor of a Buddhist Alphabet -- , Trading in the Buddhist Life for Drugs -- , Two Self-Sacrificing Bureaucrats -- , A Facebook Buddhist -- , A Daughter of Lamas, Yogis, and Shamans -- , Taiwan’s New Age Buddhist -- , A Modernist Monk with Chinese Characteristics -- , An Anticommunist Monk and Violence -- , Looking Inward: New Asceticism in Modern Buddhism -- , Art, Service, And A High-Rise Temple -- , State Secularism and the Tibetan Non-monastic Tradition -- , A Buddhist Spirit Medium -- , An Act of Merit -- , A Buddhist Lay Leader -- , A Modern-Day Burmese Weikza -- , Negotiating Religion and the State -- , Mother and Son and Meditation -- , Reconnecting with the Land (and the Gods) -- , A Buddha in the Making -- , The Singing Nun -- , The Only Buddhist in the Village -- , Stars for the Drowning -- , Alien Behavior -- , The Life and Times of a Shan Buddhist -- , Looking Outward: Local Buddhists Becoming Global Citizens -- , Teaching Buddhism as a Second Language -- , The Empowerment of Buddhist Women -- , A Buddhist Mickey Mouse -- , A Twenty-first Century Custodian -- , The Return of the Dutch -- , The Blogger Monk in Southern China -- , Carving Playful Buddhas -- , Prolific Writer, Cool Blogger -- , Collector of Magic, Esquire -- , A Sovereign Body beyond the Nation-State -- , Post-Monk Life in New Zealand -- , The First Theravada Bhikkhuni in Vietnam -- , Monk, Writer, Educator, and International Buddhist -- , On Being a “Human Being” -- , Thousand Hands, Thousand Eyes -- , Further Reading -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824858582

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824858582

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824858582

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Format: xii, 331 Seiten

ISBN: 9781614292005 , 1614292000

Note: "Translating Buddhist Luminaries Conference ... at the University of Colorado Boulder in April 2013 ... a conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan translation" --ECIP galley

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781614292173

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Gathering of brilliant moons Somerville : Wisdom Publications, 2017

Language: English

Keywords: Ris-med ; Religionsausübung ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: xxiii, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781611808940

Content: "An anthology of modern Buddhist writings from practitioners and teachers in Larung Gar, Tibet"--

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 257-269 und Index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Gayley, Holly Voices from Larung Gar New York : Shambhala, 2021 ISBN 9780834843509

Language: English

Keywords: Tibet ; Tibetischer Buddhismus ; Geschichte 2000- ; Larung Gar ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (415 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 9780231542753 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Gayley, Holly. Love letters from Golok : a tantric couple in modern Tibet. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] ISBN 9780231180528

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: xv, 396 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-231-18052-8 , 978-0-231-18053-5

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Gayley, Holly, author Love letters from Golok New York : Columbia University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780231542753

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

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Format: 1 online resource : , 28 b&w photographs

ISBN: 9780231542753

Content: Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944–2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters exchanged from 1978 to 1980, Tare Lhamo and Namtrul Rinpoche envisioned a shared destiny to "heal the damage" done to Buddhism during the years leading up to and including the Cultural Revolution. Holly Gayley retrieves the personal and prophetic dimensions of their courtship and its consummation in a twenty-year religious career that informs issues of gender and agency in Buddhism, cultural preservation among Tibetan communities, and alternative histories for minorities in China.The correspondence between Tare Lhamo and Namtrul Rinpoche is the first collection of "love letters" to come to light in Tibetan literature. Blending tantric imagery with poetic and folk song styles, their letters have a fresh vernacular tone comparable to the love songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama, but with an eastern Tibetan flavor. Gayley reads these letters against hagiographic writings about the couple, supplemented by field research, to illuminate representational strategies that serve to narrate cultural trauma in a redemptive key, quite unlike Chinese scar literature or the testimonials of exile Tibetans. With special attention to Tare Lhamo's role as a tantric heroine and her hagiographic fusion with Namtrul Rinpoche, Gayley vividly shows how Buddhist masters have adapted Tibetan literary genres to share private intimacies and address contemporary social concerns.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Note on Transliteration and Translation -- , Introduction: Journey to Golok -- , 1. Daughter of Golok: Tāre Lhamo’s Life and Context -- , 2. Local Heroine: The Hagiography of Cultural Trauma -- , 3. Inseparable Companions: A Buddhist Courtship and Correspondence -- , 4. Emissaries of Padmasambhava: Tibetan Treasures and Healing Trauma -- , 5. A Tantric Couple: The Hagiography of Cultural Revitalization -- , Epilogue: The Legacy of a Tantric Couple -- , Appendix A: Catalogue of the Letters of Namtrul Rinpoche -- , Appendix B: Catalogue of the Letters of Tāre Lhamo -- , Abbreviations -- , Notes -- , Glossary of Tibetan Names -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/gayl18052

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/gayl18052

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Format: xii, 519 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm

ISBN: 9781614297796 , 1614297797

Series Statement: Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

Note: Papers collected and published in honor Janet Gyatso , Includes bibliographical references

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781614298007

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Buddhismus ; Buddhologie ; Tibetologie ; Festschrift

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis