The Oxford handbook of Buddhist practice / edited by Paula Arai and Kevin Trainor. [electronic resource]

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
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1 online resource (689 pages)

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Series
Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]
Summary note
Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic means of defining identity and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. The chapters 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. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their respective subject areas and taken together offer an overview of current thinking in the field.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2022.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 12, 2022).
Contents
  • Buddhist Practice in South Asia / Miranda Shaw
  • Buddhism and the “Natural” Environments / Julia Shaw
  • Buddhist Healing Practices / Sienna R. Craig
  • Ritual Identification and Purification in Esoteric Practice / Richard K. Payne
  • Pilgrimage / Ian Reader
  • Dance as Vajrayana Practice / Miranda Shaw
  • Kōan Practice / Jeff Shore
  • Pure Land Practices / Charles B. Jones
  • Aural Practices of Chanting and Protection / Mahinda Deegalle
  • Monastic Discipline and Local Practice / Vesna A. Wallace
  • Buddhist Practice in Southeast Asia / Nathan McGovern
  • Practices of Veneration and Offering / Jeffrey Samuels
  • Buddhist Death Practices / Margaret Gouin
  • Women's Ordination / Hiroko Kawanami
  • Disciplining the Body-Mind / Charles Korin Pokorny
  • Monastic Authority in Medieval Japan / Lori Meeks
  • Home Altars / Linda Ho Peché
  • Calendrical, Life-cycle, and Periodic Rituals / Jonathan S. Walters
  • Food Practices / Lisa Grumbach
  • Nation-State and Monastic Identity / Thomas Borchert
  • Buddhist Practice in East Asia / Paula Arai, Eun-su Cho
  • Tree Ordination and Global Sustainability / Susan M. Darlington
  • Seeing Through Mindfulness Practices / Erik Braun
  • Contemplative Science and Buddhist Science / John D. Dunne
  • Internet-based Practices / Louise Connelly
  • Buddhist Chaplaincy / Jitsujo T. Gauthier
  • Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Practitioner Relations / Elizabeth J. Harris
  • Heavenly Rebirth and Buddhist Soteriology / Stephen Jenkins
  • an embodied dharma of race, gender, and sexuality / Jasmine Syedullah
  • The Agency of Images / Susan L. Huntington
  • Buddhist Practice in Europe and North America / Scott Mitchell
  • Introduction: Embodiment and Sense Experience / Kevin Trainor, Paula Arai
  • Buddhist Practice in Central Asia/Himalayas / Todd Lewis
  • Globalized Form of Buddhist Practice / Inken Prohl
  • Relics and Images / John S. Strong
  • Texts and Rituals / Natalie Gummer
  • Interactions with Built Environments / Abhishek Singh Amar.
Other title(s)
Buddhist practice
ISBN
  • 0-19-063295-X
  • 0-19-063293-3
  • 0-19-063294-1
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