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Westward dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia

Charles S. Prebish and Martin Baumann
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Tables (page xi)
  • Introduction: Paying Homage to the Buddha in the West (Martin Baumann and Charles S. Prebish, page 1)
  • PART I PROFILING GLOBAL BUDDHISM: A DESCRIPTION OF THE LANDSCAPE
    • 1. Who Is a Buddhist? Night-Strand Buddhists and Other Creatures (Thomas A. Tweed, page 17)
    • 2. The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West (B. Alan Wallace, page 34)
    • 3. Protective Amulets and Awareness Techniques, or How to Make Sense of Buddhism in the West (Martin Baumann, page 51)
    • 4. Studying the Spread and Histories of Buddhism in the West: The Emergence of Western Buddhism as a New Subdiscipline within Buddhist Studies (Charles S. Prebish, page 66)
  • PART II DIFFUSION: THE HISTORIES OF BUDDHISM IN WESTERN COUNTRIES
    • 5. Buddhism in Europe: Past, Present, Prospects (Martin Baumann, page 85)
    • 6. American Buddhism in the Making (Richard Hughes Seager, page 106)
    • 7. Buddhism in Canada (Bruce Matthews, page 120)
    • 8. The Development of Buddhism in Australia and New Zealand (Michelle Spuler, page 139)
    • 9. Buddhism in South Africa (Michel Clasquin, page 152)
    • 10. Buddhism in Brazil and Its Impact on the Larger Brazilian Society (Frank Usarski, page 163)
    • 11. Buddha in the Promised Land: Outlines of the Buddhist Settlement in Israel (Lionel Obadia, page 177)
  • PART III CHANGE: ADAPTATIONS AND INNOVATIONS
    • 12. Camp Dharma: Japanese-American Buddhist Identity and the Internment Experience of World War II (Duncan Ryūken Williams, page 191)
    • 13. The Translating Temple: Diasporic Buddhism in Florida (Douglas M. Padgett, page 201)
    • 14. Repackaging Zen for the West (David L. McMahan, page 218)
    • 15. Scandals in Emerging Western Buddhism (Sandra Bell, page 230)
  • PART IV LIFESTYLE: BEING A BUDDHIST IN WESTERN SOCIETIES
    • 16. The Challenge of Community (Ajahn Tiradhammo, page 245)
    • 17. Buddhist Nuns: Changes and Challenges (Karma Lekshe Tsomo, page 255)
    • 18. Neither Monk nor Nun: Western Buddhists as Full-Time Practitioners (Sylvia Wetzel, page 275)
    • 19. Virtues without Rules: Ethics in the Insight Meditation Movement (Gil Fronsdal, page 285)
  • PART V BUDDHISM FACING NEW CHALLENGES
    • 20. The Roar of the Lioness: Women's Dharma in the West (Judith Simmer-Brown, page 309)
    • 21. Engaged Buddhism: Agnosticism, Interdependence, Globalization (Christopher S. Queen, page 324)
    • 22. The Encounter of Buddhism and Psychology (Frenz Aubrey Metcalf, page 348)
    • 23. A "Commodius Vicus of Recirculation": Buddhism, Art, and Modernity (page 365)
  • Selected Biography (page 383)
  • List of Contributors (page 401)
  • Index (page 407)
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Published: c2002
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520936584 (ebook)
  • 9780520226258 (hardcover)
  • 9780520234901 (paper)
Subject
  • Religion
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