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Subject(s)

• Religious life—Buddhism [Browse]
• Buddhism [Browse]

Editor

• Bruntz, Courtney [Browse]
• Schedneck, Brooke [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Frequency

Monthly

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Lived Buddhism in Historical Contexts
• 1. Teaching Buddhism as a Lived Religion
• 2. Stories of Lived Buddhism in Sanskrit Literature
• 3. Pathways to Monastic Life The Case of Eison (1201-1290)
• 4. Eison, Preaching, and Performance in Medieval Japan
• 5. Lived Buddhism and Mount Wutai, China, in the Northern Dynasties (439-589) and Tang (618-907) Periods
• 6. Representation Matters: Women in Tibetan Life Writing
• 7. Historical Legends of the Buddha in the Region of Bongabhumi
• Part II Material Culture in Buddhist Communities
• 8. Material Culture in Pure Land Buddhist Practice
• 9. Living Sacred Landscape: Space, Cosmology, and Community in the Buddhist Temples in Northern Thailand
• 10. Between Science and Supernatural Power: Tea and Buddhist Communities in Taiwan
• 11. Buddhist Pilgrimage and Living Religious Heritage in North India
• 12. Material Buddhist Culture in Healing: Taiwanese Approaches to Healing Illnesses After Death
• Part III Teaching and Learning Buddhism for the Next Generation
• 13. Prayers for Academic Success in South Korea
• 14. Being Young and Buddhist in Precarious Times: Exploring the Relational, Contextual, and Digital in Lived Buddhism
• 15. Raising Temple Family Members: Intergenerational Temple Dynamics in Japan
• 16. Passing the Light of Buddhism in Malaysia Through Dharma Class
• 17. Disseminating Buddhism in Transnational Organizations
• 18. Burmese American Youth Experiences With Theravada Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Part IV Buddhists Crossing Boundaries and Engaging Society
• 19. On Ecological Degradation and the Practice of Purification in Urban Mongolia.
• 20. Charity in a Working-Class Taiwanese Buddhist Community: Forming Affinities With Food to Build the Pure Land On Earth
• 21. Reconfiguring Buddhism for Youth in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• 22. Buddhist "Magic" and Buddhist Modernism: Karma, Relatedness, and Hungry Ghosts in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• 23. Hindu-Buddhist Conversion in Nepal
• Part V Buddhist Rituals and Practices in the Contemporary World
• 24. Lived Traditions and the Pursuit of Happiness in Thailand
• 25. Meeting the Buddha: Introductory Buddhist Retreats and Spiritual Tourism in Britain
• 26. How to Make an Ancestor: Death and Funeral Rituals in Laos
• 27. Preserving the Forests and Walks for Peace in Cambodia
• 28. Critique, Reform, and Ethical Innovation: Buddhist Philosophies in Contemporary Tibetan Hip Hop
• 29. Healing Through Days of Mindfulness and Retreats in the Southern United States: The Magnolia Grove Meditation Practice Center in the Plum Village Tradition
• Index.

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Other title(s)

Lived Buddhism

ISBN

• 0-19-765871-7
• 0-19-765870-9
• 0-19-765872-5

Doi

• 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197658697.001.0001

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