Challenging Paradigms

Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments

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Produktbeschreibung

Wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that frame 'the local' in Buddhist discourse. Buddhism and Nativism offers a comparative study of localising responses to Buddhism in different Buddhist environments in Japan, Korea, Tibet, India and Bali.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9789004231078
• ISBN-10: 9004231072
• Artikelnr.: 39076598

Autorenporträt

Mark Teeuwen, PhD (1996), in Japanese Studies, University of Leiden, is Professor at Oslo University. He has published extensively on the history of kami cults and Shinto. His latest book is A new history of Shinto (2010, co-authored with John Breen). Henk Blezer, PhD (Leiden 1997), has researched and published on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and on Bön since the early nineties. He organised the 9th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000, and published the proceedings (Brill 2002). He has worked on Bön traditions for about twenty years and was Principal Investigator of the The Three Pillars of Bön research program (NWO Vidi), on the formation of Bön identity in Tibet, at the turn of the first millennium AD.