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The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular, they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their claim to uniqueness, were indebted to larger trends in East Asian Buddhism, such as the cults of icons, relics and the monastic robe.The book emphasises the importance of ritual for a proper understanding of this allegedly anti-ritualistic form of Buddhism. In doing so, it deconstructs the Chan/Zen 'rhetoric of immediacy' and its ideologica
Zen Buddhism --- Rituals --- History. --- Chʻan Buddhism --- Dhyāna (Sect) --- Zen --- Zen (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Zen Buddhism - Rituals - History. --- Zen Buddhism - History.
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'Skilful Means' is the key principle of Mahayana, one of the great Buddhist traditions. First described in the Lotus Sutra, it originates in myths of the Buddha's compassionate plans for raising life from the ceaseless round of birth and death. His strategies or interventions are 'skilful means' - morally wholesome tricks devised for the purpose of enabling nirvana or enlightenment. Michael Pye's clear and engaging introductory guide investigates the meaning and context of skilful means in Mayahana Buddhist teachings, whilst tracing its early origins in ancient Japanese and Theravada though
Upāya (Buddhism) --- Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Means (Buddhism) --- Skilful means (Buddhism) --- Doctrines. --- Doctrines
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As a consequence of the recent activities and utterances of the aggressive forces of Hinduism (or Hindutva), the twin issues of religion and identity are at the forefront of social and political discourse in India. This has also led to a growing interest in Buddhism and a reconsideration of the role of Christianity and Islam in India as well as given rise to a far-reaching reassessment of the cultural, spiritual and artistic heritage of the subcontinent. This fascinating book constitutes a unique exploration of 2,500 years of the development of Buddhism, Brahmanism and caste in India, taking D
Brahmanism --- Buddhism --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Hinduism --- Relations --- Buddhism. --- Brahmanism. --- History.
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Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Fourteen new essays treat the historical origins, global range, teachings and practices, and leaders and organizations that make up the latest turning of the Dharma. Environmentalism and peace walks through the minefields of Southeast Asia, the future of the 'untouchables' of Japan, and outreach to minorities and inmates of the criminal justice system in the West are some of the challenging topics considered.
Buddhism --- Buddhist doctrines --- Buddhist theology --- Lamaist doctrines --- Social aspects. --- Doctrines. --- Buddhism - Social aspects. --- Buddhism - Doctrines.
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Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravāda Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravāda communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings.
Buddhism --- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) --- Theravāda --- Social aspects --- History --- Theravāda Buddhism --- Monastic and religious life (Lamaism) --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Religious life --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Pali Buddhism --- Southern Buddhism --- Buddhist sects --- Hinayana Buddhism --- Buddhism - Social aspects - Asia, Southeastern. --- Buddhism - Social aspects - South Asia. --- Theravāda - Buddhism - History - 20th century.
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"Creatively exploring the points of confluence and conflict between Western psychology and Buddhist teachings, various scholars, researchers, and therapists struggle to integrate their diverse psychological orientations - psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, transpersonal - with their diverse Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist practices. By investigating the degree to which Buddhist insights are compatible with Western science and culture, they then consider what each philosophical/psychological system has to offer the other. The contributors reveal how Buddhism has changed the way they practice psychotherapy, choose their research topics, and conduct their personal lives. In doing so, they illuminate the relevance of ancient Buddhist texts to contemporary cultural and psychological dilemmas."--Jacket
Buddhism --- Spiritual life --- Psychotherapy --- Buddhism and psychoanalysis. --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism) --- Psychoanalysis and Buddhism --- Psychoanalysis --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- History --- Buddhism. --- Religious aspects
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Exploring the role of spirituality and religion in treatment, this book provides a sound clinical and academic rationale for exploring incorporating principles of Zen in traditional psychotherapy. The authors, one a clinical educator and social scientist, the other a nurse psychotherapist and practicing Buddhist present a fascinating dialog on the ""science"" and the ""art"" sides of the art-science debate. Practical suggestions are included for achieving a balance between these two poles of the helping and healing process.
Meditation --- Psychotherapy --- Buddhism and psychoanalysis. --- Psychoanalysis and Buddhism --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychagogy --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health counseling --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Prayer --- Spiritual life --- Contemplation --- Zen Buddhism --- Therapeutic use. --- Religious aspects --- Zen Buddhism. --- Treatment --- Buddhism
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Korean Americans --- Ethnic relations --- Protestant churches --- Buddhism --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Protestant sects --- Christian sects --- Protestantism --- Religion. --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Christianity. --- History --- Social conditions.
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Provides a philosophical account of everyday consciousness as a way of understanding mystical consciousness, drawing on the work of many Western and some Japanese thinkers.
Zen Buddhism --- Philosophy, Japanese --- Philosophy, European --- Religion --- Philosophy.
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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life-Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be. Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, Hugh B. Urban reveals how it has been formed through the interplay of popular and scholarly imaginations. Tantra emerges as a product of mirroring and misrepresentation at work between East and West--a dialectical category born out of the ongoing play between Western and Indian minds. Combining historical detail, textual analysis, popular cultural phenomena, and critical theory, this book shows Tantra as a shifting amalgam of fantasies, fears, and wish-fulfillment, at once native and Other, that strikes at the very heart of our constructions of the exotic Orient and the contemporary West.
Tantric Buddhism. --- Tantrism. --- Buddhism, Tantric --- Buddhist tantrism --- Esoteric Buddhism --- Mantrayāna Buddhism --- Mikkyō --- Tantrism, Buddhist --- Vajrayāna Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Tantricism --- Tantrism, Hindu --- Hinduism --- Magic --- Mysticism --- anthropology. --- buddhism. --- buddhist tradition. --- comparative religion. --- contemporary religion. --- critical theory. --- cultural phenomena. --- east and west. --- eastern philosophy. --- european scholars. --- faith and spirituality. --- hinduism. --- india. --- indian religions. --- jainism. --- nonfiction. --- physical experiences. --- political power. --- religious lives. --- religious practices. --- religious secrecy. --- religious studies. --- sensuality. --- sex. --- sexual politics. --- sexuality. --- tantra. --- western thought. --- western world. --- world religions.
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