Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

Jeffrey Samuels, Justin Thomas McDaniel, Mark Michael Rowe

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780824858582
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Asian History

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Contents by Buddhist Tradition
• Contents by Region and Country
• Introduction
• Looking Backward
• Yangon Airport Tower Communications Worker
• The “Insane” Monk
• The Choices of a Priest on the Edge of Toyota City
• A Witness to Genocide
• A Monk between Worlds
• A Buddhist Media Pioneer
• Embracing Belief and Critique in an Academic Life
• Knowing Buddha Organization
• Educate, Agitate, Organize
• Sinhala Buddhism and Alcohol Consumption
• The Builder of Temporary Temples and Golden Corpses
• A Rakhine Monk from Bangladesh
• Rebuilding Temples after War
• Scholar, Reformer, and Activist
• A Thai Mural Painter in Singapore
• Looking Forward: Social-Psychological Care in a Troubled World
• Stabilizing the Rhythms of Life after the Tsunami
• President of the Theravada Nuns’ Order of Nepal
• The Rise of the “Clinical Religionist”
• Activist Temple Wife
• Modernizing Buddhist Proselytization in Hong Kong
• Modern Miracles of a Female Buddhist Master
• The Temple Is a Place of Solutions
• Maitreya’s IT Guy
• A Female Monk and the Hmong
• The Globally Local Priest
• Raising the Powerful Girl Child
• Buddha Was Tharu
• A Modern Taiwanese Educator
• Inventor of a Buddhist Alphabet
• Trading in the Buddhist Life for Drugs
• Two Self-Sacrificing Bureaucrats
• A Facebook Buddhist
• A Daughter of Lamas, Yogis, and Shamans
• Taiwan’s New Age Buddhist
• A Modernist Monk with Chinese Characteristics
• An Anticommunist Monk and Violence
• Looking Inward: New Asceticism in Modern Buddhism
• Art, Service, And A High-Rise Temple
• State Secularism and the Tibetan Non-monastic Tradition
• A Buddhist Spirit Medium
• An Act of Merit
• A Buddhist Lay Leader
• A Modern-Day Burmese Weikza
• Negotiating Religion and the State
• Mother and Son and Meditation
• Reconnecting with the Land (and the Gods)
• A Buddha in the Making
• The Singing Nun
• The Only Buddhist in the Village
• Stars for the Drowning
• Alien Behavior
• The Life and Times of a Shan Buddhist
• Looking Outward: Local Buddhists Becoming Global Citizens
• Teaching Buddhism as a Second Language
• The Empowerment of Buddhist Women
• A Buddhist Mickey Mouse
• A Twenty-first Century Custodian
• The Return of the Dutch
• The Blogger Monk in Southern China
• Carving Playful Buddhas
• Prolific Writer, Cool Blogger
• Collector of Magic, Esquire
• A Sovereign Body beyond the Nation-State
• Post-Monk Life in New Zealand
• The First Theravada Bhikkhuni in Vietnam
• Monk, Writer, Educator, and International Buddhist
• On Being a “Human Being”
• Thousand Hands, Thousand Eyes
• Further Reading
• Contributors
• Index