ISBN:
978-93-5098-116-0
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 411 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Reprinted
Series Statement:
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series
Keywords:
Indien Sri Lanka
;
China
;
Buddhismus
;
Geschichte
;
Revitalisierung
;
Tempel
;
Utopie, politische
;
Kosambi, Dharmananda [Leben und Werk]
;
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji [Leben und Werk]
;
Liang, Qichao [Leben und Werk]
;
Taixu [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
The birth of Buddhism goes back to the sixth century BCE and, over the centuries, there has been considerable variety as well as considerable change in its doctrines, practices and propagation across the different parts of Asia. This volume showcases the expansion in the religion's contours and popularity in Asia in modern times. Focusing on India, Sri Lanka and China, the essays in the book highlight the cross-fertilization between Buddhism and contemporary discourses which makes the phenomenon of Buddhist revival in Asia unambiguously modern. They also show how this resurgence assumed a great variety of forms depending on the specificities of the historical and cultural context, including Buddhism's encounter with other religious traditions. Continuities with the past are not absent, and revivalist movements have been characterized and propelled by a strong sense of history and yet this, in effect, involved crafting new interpretations of a distant past, and the introduction of new ideas and practices. The term reinvention seems to capture this aspect of dynamic change better than revival. At the same time, as this volume reveals, the choice of terms is not as important as tracing the trajectories of the phenomenon and the awareness that its impact extended far beyond the religious domain into many spheres, including those of cultural practice, national identity and international relations. This is a historically rich and readable volume which will interest general readers as well as students and scholars of history and of Buddhism. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I. Buddhism in India: the interface between the ancient and the modern -- Part II. Texts, politics and the Sangha in Sri Lanka -- Part III. The revival of Buddhism in China -- Part IV. Afterword -- List of contributors -- Index
Note:
Enthält eine Introduction und 13 Beiträge; "The contributions thatmake up this volume were first presented at a conference on §"The Buddhist Revival in Asia" held in Singapore in December 2010" (Introduction)
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