Defining Buddhism(s) : a reader /
"Defining Buddhism(s): A Reader explores the multiple ways in which Buddhisms have been defined and constructed by Buddhists and scholars. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of their own role in the process of constructing the Buddhist communities that they represent - a...
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London ; Oakville, CT :
Equinox Pub.,
2007.
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| Series: | Critical categories in the study of religion.
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Table of Contents:
- Archaeology and Protestant presuppositions in the study of Indian Buddhism / Gregory Schopen
- Suttas as history : four approaches to the Sermon on the Noble Quest (Ariyapariyesanasutta) / Jonathan S. Walters
- Historical understanding : the Chan Buddhist transmission narratives and modern historiography / Dale S. Wright
- Roads taken and not taken in the study of Theravāda Buddhism / Charles Hallisey
- The suppression of the Three Stages Sect : apocrypha as a political issue / Mark Edward Lewis
- Budda no fukuin : the deployment of Paul Carus's Gospel of Buddha in Meiji Japan / Judith Snodgrass
- Re-membering the dismembered body of Tibet : contemporary Tibetan visionary movements in the People's Republic of China / David Germano
- The image of an orphan : Cambodian narrative sites for Buddhist ethical reflection / Anne Hansen
- Seeking Śākyamuni : travel and the reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism / Richard M. Jaffe
- One plus one makes three : Buddhist gender, monasticism, and the law of the non-excluded middle / Janet Gyatso.