Buddhisms in Asia
Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2019
210 pages
978-1-4384-7586-8 (ISBN)
Description
A guide to Buddhism's rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 4
Total Illustrations: 4
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-7586-8 (9781438475868)
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Nicholas S. Brasovan | Micheline M. Soong
Buddhisms in Asia
Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations
Book
09/2019
State University of New York Press
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Nicholas S. Brasovan | Micheline M. Soong
Buddhisms in Asia
Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations
Book
09/2019
State University of New York Press
€100.50
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
Nicholas S. Brasovan is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas and the author of Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism: An Interpretive Engagement with Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), also published by SUNY Press. Micheline M. Soong is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Hawaii Pacific University.
Content
Illustrations
Foreword
Peter D. Hershock
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong
1. The Buddhist Canon and the Liberal Arts Classroom
Andy Alexander Davis
2. Awakening in the Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism: Reading a Gongan/Koan Comparatively
Ann Pirruccello
3. Seeking the Pure Land (in the Classroom)
Kendall Marchman
4. The Representation and Transformation of Nagas, Dragons, and Dragon Kings in Chinese Painting
Jacqueline Chao
5. Trials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction
R. Keller Kimbrough
6. The Buddhist Gift: Merit-Making, Donations, and the Ambivalence of Reward
Jessica Falcone
7. The Puzzle of the Socially Engaged Buddhist Agent and a Thai Buddhist Philosophical Response
Geoff Ashton
8. Five Themes toward Teaching the History of Vietnamese Buddhism
Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox
9. Not Knowing Is Most Intimate: Introducing Buddhism into a Humanities Course
Jane Collins
Contributors
Index
Foreword
Peter D. Hershock
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong
1. The Buddhist Canon and the Liberal Arts Classroom
Andy Alexander Davis
2. Awakening in the Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism: Reading a Gongan/Koan Comparatively
Ann Pirruccello
3. Seeking the Pure Land (in the Classroom)
Kendall Marchman
4. The Representation and Transformation of Nagas, Dragons, and Dragon Kings in Chinese Painting
Jacqueline Chao
5. Trials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction
R. Keller Kimbrough
6. The Buddhist Gift: Merit-Making, Donations, and the Ambivalence of Reward
Jessica Falcone
7. The Puzzle of the Socially Engaged Buddhist Agent and a Thai Buddhist Philosophical Response
Geoff Ashton
8. Five Themes toward Teaching the History of Vietnamese Buddhism
Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox
9. Not Knowing Is Most Intimate: Introducing Buddhism into a Humanities Course
Jane Collins
Contributors
Index
