The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Popular representations of Buddhism often depict it as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. Yet embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions. The essays within The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice push beyond traditional representations of Buddhism as divided into static schools and traditions, highlighting instead the contested and negotiated character of individual and group identities. This volume will serve as a corrective to the common misconception that Buddhist practice is limited to seated meditation and that ritualized activities are not an integral dimension of authoritative Buddhist practice. Essays in this handbook explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. Authors foreground the role of the body, examining how the senses, gender, specific emotions, and material engagements impact religious experience. They highlight, as well, the multiplicity of methods and theoretical perspectives that scholars of Buddhism use in their research and writing, including field-based, textual, and historical approaches. Given the fluidity and diversity of Buddhist practices, the question that animates this volume is: What makes a given practice Buddhist?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190632939
• Artikelnr.: 63971307

Autorenporträt

Paula Arai is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. She is author of Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra--The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo, Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns, and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women's Rituals. Her research has received a range of support, including from Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has curated exhibits of Iwasaki's Heart Sutra paintings at the Museum of Art at Louisiana State University, the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, and the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach Florida. Kevin Trainor is Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont. His work has centered on Buddhist relic practices in South Asia, highlighting the centrality of material mediations of the Buddha's presence and the importance of embodied practices in the formation and dissemination of early Buddhist traditions in India and Sri Lanka. His publications, as author or editor, include Relics, Ritual and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition, Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia, co-edited with David Germano, Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide, and Relics in Comparative Perspective

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Embodiment and Sense Experience
Kevin Trainor and Paula Arai
Regional Perspectives
Chapter 2. Practice in South Asia
Miranda Shaw
Chapter 3. Practice in Southeast Asia
Nathan McGovern
Chapter 4. Practice in East Asia
Paula Arai and Eun-su Cho
Chapter 5. Practice in Central Asia/Himalayas
Todd Lewis
Chapter 6. Practice in Europe and North America
Scott Mitchell
Chapter 7. Globalized Forms of Practice
Inken Prohl
Material Mediations
Chapter 8. Relics and Images
John Strong
Chapter 9. The Agency of Images
Susan Huntington
Chapter 10. Texts and Rituals
Natalie Gummer
Chapter 11. Interactions with Built Environments
Abhishek Amar
Chapter 12. Interactions with "Natural" Environments
Julia Shaw
Bodies in Transition
Chapter 13. Buddhist Healing Practices
Sienna Craig
Chapter 14. Pilgrimage
Ian Reader
Chapter 15. Dance as Vajrayana Practice
Miranda Shaw
Chapter 16. Buddhist Death Practices
Margaret Gouin
Body-Mind Transformations
Chapter 17. Aural Practices of Chanting and Protection
Mahinda Deegalle
Chapter 18. Pure Land Practices
Charles Jones
Chapter 19. Koan Practice
Jeff Shore
Human and Nonhuman Interactions
Chapter 20. Practices of Veneration and Offering
Jeffrey Samuels
Chapter 21. Ritual Identification and Purification in Esoteric Practice
Richard K. Payne
Chapter 22. Heavenly Rebirth and Buddhist Soteriology
Stephen Jenkins
Domestic and Monastic Practices
Chapter 23. Women's Ordination
Hiroko Kawanami
Chapter 24. Monastic Authority in Medieval Japan
Lori Meeks
Chapter 25. Monastic Discipline and Local Practice
Vesna Wallace
Chapter 26. Disciplining the Body-Mind
Charles Korin Pokorny
Chapter 27. Home Altars
Linda Ho Peché
Chapter 28. Calendrical, Life-cycle, and Periodic Rituals
Jonathan Walters
Chapter 29. Food Practices
Lisa Grumbach
Modernities and Emergent Forms of Practice
Chapter 30. Nation-State and Monastic Identity
Tom Borchert
Chapter 31. Tree Ordination and Global Sustainability
Susan Darlington
Chapter 32. an embodied dharma of race, gender, and sexuality
Jasmine Syedullah
Chapter 33. Buddhist Chaplaincy
Jitsujo T. Gauthier
Chapter 34. Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Practitioner Relations
Elizabeth Harris
Chapter 35. Internet-based Practices
Louise Connelly
Chapter 36. Contemplative Science and Buddhist Science
John D. Dunne
Chapter 37. Seeing Through Mindfulness Practices
Erik Braun
Contributor Bios
Thematic Index