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Lotus Blossoms And Purple Clouds - Monastic Buddhism In Post-Mao China

de Mark Michael Rowe

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 Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols's pioneering Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centres on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China.
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The Land We Saw, The Times We Knew - An Anthology Of Zuihitsu Writing From Early Modern Japan

de Gerald Groemer

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 Japanese zuihitsu (essays) offer a treasure trove of information rarely found in any other genre of Japanese writing. Especially during their golden age, the Edo period, zuihitsu treated a great variety of subjects. The seven zuihitsu translated and annotated in this volume date from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries.
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Buddhist Tourism In Asia

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 The first work to focus on Buddhist tourism, this book explores how Buddhists, government organisations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism.
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Buddhist Healing In Medieval China And Japan

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 In this diverse and compelling collection, an international group of scholars analyses the historical connections between Buddhism and healing in medieval China and Japan. Contributors focus on the transnationally conveyed aspects of Buddhist healing traditions as they moved across geographic, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.
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Guardians Of The Buddha'S Home - Domestic Religion In Contemporary Jodo Shinshu

de Jessica Starling

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 Draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jdo Shinsh temple life with temple wives at its centre. Throughout, Jessica Starling focuses on ""domestic religion"", a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature.
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Morality And Monastic Revival In Post-Mao Tibet

de Jane E. Caple

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 Drawing on the recent ""moral turn"" in anthropology, this volume, the first full-length ethnographic study of the subject, explores the social and moral dimensions of monastic revival and reform across a range of Geluk monasteries in northeast Tibet (Amdo/Qinghai Province) from the 1980s on.
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Guardians Of The Buddha'S Home - Domestic Religion In Contemporary Jodo Shinshu

de Jessica Starling

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 Draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its centre. Throughout, Jessica Starling focuses on â€œdomestic religionâ€, a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression.
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Worldly Engagements - Buddhist Monasticism And Masculinity Among The Tai Lue Of Southwest China

de Roger Casas

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Living With The Vinaya - An Ethnography Of Monasticism In Myanmar

de Ryosuke Kuramoto

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Literature For Little Bodhisattvas - Making Buddhist Families In Modern Taiwan

de Natasha Heller

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Living With The Vinaya - An Ethnography Of Monasticism In Myanmar

de Ryosuke Kuramoto

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 The rules monks live by, the Vinaya, are a pivotal source of meaning for them and their dealings with society and form the basis of multiple monasticisms across regions and history. In this book, Kuramoto examines the process of creating monasticism in contemporary Myanmar by focusing on how monks acquire, possess, and consume material goods.
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Elusive Belonging - Marriage Immigrants And "Multiculturalism" In Rural South Korea

de Minjeong Kim

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 Examines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Elusive Belonging examines Filipinas who married rural South Korean bachelors in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Cities And Nationhood - American Imperialism And Urban Design In The Philippines, 1898-1916

de Ian Morley

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 Places the design of Philippine cities within a framework of Americaâ€™s distinct religious and racial identity, colonial politics, and local cultural expansion. In doing so, the book expands knowledge about city planning - its influence and role - within national development by providing valuable insights into the nature of Philippine society.
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Ink And Tears - Memory, Mourning, And Writing In The Yu Family

de Rania Huntington

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 How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This fascinating study shows how members of the prominent Yu family passed down their personal and familial memories over five generations.
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Buddhist And Islamic Orders In Southern Asia - Comparative Perspectives

de Alexey Kirichenko, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Anne M., Phd Blackburn, Kenneth Dean, Nancy K. Florida, R. Michael Feener e Torsten Tschacher

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 Brings cutting-edge research to bear on conversations about how 'orders' have functioned within these two traditions to expand and sustain transregional religious networks. The book will help to develop a better understanding of the complex roles played by religious networks in the history of Southern Asia.
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From The Mountains To The Cities - A History Of Buddhist Propagation In Modern Korea

de Mark A. Nathan

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 Traces pâ€™ogyo, the active propagation of Korean Buddhist teachings and practices, from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. While advocates stressed the traditional roots and historical precedents of the practice, they also viewed pâ€™ogyo as an effective method for the transformation of Korean Buddhism into a modern religion.
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From Indra'S Net To Internet - Communication, Technology, And The Evolution Of Buddhist Ideas

de Mark Michael Rowe

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 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.
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Jejueo - The Language Of Korea'S Jeju Island

de Changyong Yang, Sejung Yang e William O'Grady

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 Jeju Island, located southwest of the Korean mainland, is famous for its natural beauty, dolhaleubang statues, haenyeo divers - and its language, which has only recently been recognized as distinct from Korean. This book offers both an introduction to the language and the foundation for a wave of new research on its many unique features.
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Monastic Education In Korea - Teaching Monks About Buddhism In The Modern Age

de Uri Kaplan

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 Provides what is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. The book 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.
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Buddhism And Business - Merit, Material Wealth, And Morality In The Global Market Economy

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 In the last few decades Buddhists have become increasingly ensconced in the global market economy. The contributors to this volume address how Buddhists have become active participants in market dynamics in a global age, and how Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike engage Buddhism economically.
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Soka Gakkai'S Human Revolution - The Rise Of A Mimetic Nation In Modern Japan

de Levi Mclaughlin

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 Soka Gakkai is Japan's largest and most influential new religious organisation: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members. Levi McLaughlin's account of Soka Gakkai draws on research and fieldwork to account for its institutional development and suggest how we should understand the activities of its adherents.
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Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile - Us Imprisonment Of Hawai'I'S Japanese In World War Ii

de Gail Y. Okawa

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 Offers a chronicling of the Hawai'i Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during World War II. Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during the war, it is also a research narrative that reveals parallels between pre-WWII conditions and current twenty-first century anti-immigrant attitudes.
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The Future Of Bangalore'S Cosmopolitan Pasts - Civility And Difference In A Global City

de Andrew C. Willford

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 Buttressed by field research conducted over a twenty-two-year period (1992-2015), Andrew Willford shows how the past is a living resource for the negotiation of identity in the present. Against the gloom of increasingly communal conflicts, he finds that Bangalore still retains a fabric of civility against the modern markings of cultural difference.
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Educating Monks - Minority Buddhism On China'S Southwest Border

de Thomas A. Borchert

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 Buddhist monastics are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above - collectively and often simultaneously.
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