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ISBN: 9780824893477 , 9783110993899

Series Statement: Contemporary Buddhism

Content: Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols' pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China. Nichols conducted more than twenty-six months of field research over a fourteen-year period (2005-2019) to develop a re-description of Chinese monastic Buddhism that reaches beyond canonical sources and master narratives to local texts, material culture, oral history, and living traditions. His work decenters normative accounts and sheds light on how Buddhism is lived and practiced. It introduces readers to Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery and its community of clergy striving to revive traditions after the turmoil of the Maoist era; the lay Buddhists worshiping in the monastery's courtyards and halls; the busloads of tourists marveling at the site's buildings and artifacts, some dating as far back as the Tang Dynasty (ninth century); and the local officials dedicated to supporting-and restricting-the return of religion.Using gazetteers, epigraphy, and other archival sources, Nichols begins by tracing the history of Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery from the Tang to the present, noting the continued relevance of preternatural events like the lotus-blooming mulberry trees and auspicious purple clouds associated with the founding of the monastery. The contemporary monastery is then explored through ethnographic participation/observation and interviews. Nichols uncovers a number of unexpected features of Buddhist religious life, making a case for the fundamentally liturgical nature of Buddhist monastic practice-one marked by a program of daily dhara?i (sacred text) recitation, esoteric traditions, and ancestor veneration. Finally, he presents an innovative spatial analysis of the Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery temple that reveals how different groups engage with the site to create a place of religious practice, a tourist attraction, and a community park.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Series Editor's Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Note on Conventions and Orthography -- , Introduction -- , Part I History -- , 1 The Monastic Cycle: Patterns of History -- , 2 The Post-Mao Revival: Stages of Recovery -- , Part II Religious Life -- , 3 Communal Religious Life: Liturgical Rites -- , 4 Monks: 84,000 Dharma Gates -- , Part III Material Dynamics -- , 5 Material Culture: Iron Temple, Water Monks -- , 6 Founding Legends: Sanctifying and Branding Space -- , 7 Curators and the Revivalists: Negotiating Spatial Dynamics -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index -- , About the Author , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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DOI: 10.1515/9780824893477

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ISBN: 9780824866013

Series Statement: Contemporary Buddhism

Content: Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement.Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.

Note: Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Series Editor’s Preface -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- 1. Monuments and Metabolism -- -- 2. Ecumenical Parks and Cosmological Gardens -- -- 3. Buddhist Museums and Curio Cabinets -- -- Conclusions and Comparisons -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index -- -- About the Author , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English

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DOI: 10.21313/9780824866013

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (232 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-0-8248-8416-1

Series Statement: Contemporary Buddhism

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Buddhismus ; Wirtschaft ; Marktwirtschaft ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Buddhistische Philosophie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource , 7 b&w illustrations

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ISBN: 9780824866952

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Family of Clerics -- 2. Staying at Home as Buddhist Propagation -- 3. Home Economics -- 4. Social Networks and Social Obligations in the Disciplining of Bōmori -- 5. Wives in Front of the Altar -- 6. Equality and Freedom in the Ōtani-ha -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author

Content: In Guardians of the Buddha’s Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bōmori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on “domestic religion,” a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature.The Buddhist temple wife’s movement back and forth between the main hall and the “back stage” of the kitchen and family residence highlights the way religious meaning cannot be confined to canonical texts or to the area of the temple prescribed for formal worship. Starling argues that attaining Buddhist faith (shinjin) is just as likely to occur in response to a simple act of hospitality, a sense of community experienced at an informal temple gathering, or an aesthetic affinity with the temple space that has been carefully maintained by the bōmori as it is from hearing the words of a Pure Land sutra intoned by a professional priest. For temple wives, the spiritual practice of button hōsha (repayment of the debt owed to the Buddha for one’s salvation) finds expression through the conscientious stewardship of temple donations, caring for the Buddha’s home and opening it to lay followers, raising the temple’s children, and propagating the teachings in the domestic sphere. Engaging with what religious scholars have called the “turn to affect,” Starling’s work investigates in personal detail how religious dispositions are formed in individual practitioners. The answer, not surprisingly, has as much to do with intimate relationships and "idian practices as with formal liturgies or scripted sermons

Note: Includes bilbliographical references and index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English

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Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

DOI: 10.21313/9780824866952

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p) , 8 b&w illustrations

Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]

ISBN: 9780824883577

Series Statement: Contemporary Buddhism

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Should Buddhist Monks Know about Buddhism? -- CHAPTER ONE. The Traditional Curriculum -- CHAPTER TWO. Monastic Education in Twentieth-Century Korea -- CHAPTER THREE. Buddhism Simulating Buddhist Studies: Twenty-First-Century Reforms -- CHAPTER FOUR. Toward Buddhist Pluralism: Monastic Graduate Schools and Internationalization -- CHAPTER FIVE. Monastic Examinations and Bureaucratic Ranks -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Chogye Order Official Curricula for Monastic Graduate Schools -- Appendix B: Schedule of the 2014 Chogye Order Postulant Education Program -- Appendix C: Glossary of Principal Curricular Titles and Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Content: What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism includes some four thousand canonical texts, hundreds of other historical works, modern textbooks, oral traditions, and more recently, an increasingly growing body of online material. The sheer diversity of this mass of information makes the pedagogical choices of monastics worthy of close study.Monastic Education in Korea is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, it illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical program—only to be criticized and completely restructured in recent years. Through a detailed analysis of these modifications, the work demonstrates how Korean Buddhist reformers today tend to imitate the educational practices and canonize the textual totems of the contemporary international discipline of Buddhist studies, and how, by doing so, they ultimately transform the local Korean tradition from a particular brand of Chinese-centered scholastic Chan into the inclusive, pluralistic, Indian-focused Buddhism common in English-language introductions to the religion.The book further examines the proliferation of diverse graduate schools for the sangha, as well as the creation of a novel examination system for all monastics. It reveals some of the realities of operating large monastic organizations in contemporary Asia and portrays a living, vibrant Buddhist community that is constantly negotiating with modern values and reformulating its core orthodoxies

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DOI: 10.1515/9780824883577

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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

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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

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 218 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-0-8248-5858-2

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Figures of Buddhist modernity in Asia ISBN 978-0-8248-5854-4

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Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Buddhist ; Biografie

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Format: 1 online resource (200 p.) : , 7 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780824866952

Content: In Guardians of the Buddha’s Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bōmori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on “domestic religion,” a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature.The Buddhist temple wife’s movement back and forth between the main hall and the “back stage” of the kitchen and family residence highlights the way religious meaning cannot be confined to canonical texts or to the area of the temple prescribed for formal worship. Starling argues that attaining Buddhist faith (shinjin) is just as likely to occur in response to a simple act of hospitality, a sense of community experienced at an informal temple gathering, or an aesthetic affinity with the temple space that has been carefully maintained by the bōmori as it is from hearing the words of a Pure Land sutra intoned by a professional priest. For temple wives, the spiritual practice of button hōsha (repayment of the debt owed to the Buddha for one’s salvation) finds expression through the conscientious stewardship of temple donations, caring for the Buddha’s home and opening it to lay followers, raising the temple’s children, and propagating the teachings in the domestic sphere. Engaging with what religious scholars have called the “turn to affect,” Starling’s work investigates in personal detail how religious dispositions are formed in individual practitioners. The answer, not surprisingly, has as much to do with intimate relationships and "idian practices as with formal liturgies or scripted sermons.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Series Editor’s Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. A Family of Clerics -- , 2. Staying at Home as Buddhist Propagation -- , 3. Home Economics -- , 4. Social Networks and Social Obligations in the Disciplining of Bōmori -- , 5. Wives in Front of the Altar -- , 6. Equality and Freedom in the Ōtani-ha -- , Conclusion -- , Glossary -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824866952

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Format: 1 online resource (288 p.)

ISBN: 9780824876289

Series Statement: Contemporary Buddhism

Content: In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the mid-first millennium BCE. He uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent evolution to show how Buddhism arose in the largely urban milieu of Axial Age northeastern India and spread rapidly along the transportation and trading nodes of the Silk Road, where it appealed to merchants and traders from a variety of backgrounds. Throughout, he compares early phases of Buddhism with contemporary developments in which rapid changes in patterns of social interaction were also experienced and brought about by large-scale urbanization and growth in communication and transportation. In both cases, such changes supported the expansive consciousness needed to allow Buddhism to germinate. Veidlinger argues that Buddhist ideas tend to fare well in certain media environments; through a careful analysis of communications used in these contexts, he finds persuasive parallels with modern advances in communications technology that amplify the conditions and effects found along ancient trade routes.From Indra’s Net to Internet incorporates historical research as well as data collected using computer-based analysis of user-generated web content to demonstrate that robust communication networks, which allow for relatively easy contact among a variety of people, support a de-centered understanding of the self, greater compassion for others, an appreciation of interdependence, a universal outlook, and a reduction in emphasis on the efficacy of ritual—all of which lie at the heart of the Buddha’s teachings. The book’s interdisciplinary approach should appeal to those interested in not only Buddhism, media studies and history, but also computer science, cognitive science, and cultural evolution.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Series Editor’s Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Media Theory and the Study of Buddhism -- , CHAPTER TWO. Wheeling and Dealing: Transportation, Communication, and Axial Age Religion -- , CHAPTER THREE. Discourse and the Buddha: Trade, Urbanization, and Communication in Ancient India -- , CHAPTER FOUR. The Information Superhighway of Old: Buddhism along the Silk Road -- , CHAPTER FIVE. Electrifying Indra’s Net: How the Internet Shapes the Reception of Buddhist Ideas -- , CHAPTER SIX. Self, Selfies, and Selflessness in Cyberspace -- , CHAPTER SEVEN. Thus Have I Clicked: Quantitative Data and Survey Results for Buddhism Online -- , CHAPTER EIGHT. Conclusion: Computer-Mediated Communication and the Future of Buddhist Ideas -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824876289

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