| Description |
ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Critical categories in the study of religion |
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Critical categories in the study of religion.
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| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [306]-327) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Buddhism.
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Buddhism -- Historiography.
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Buddhism -- Doctrines -- History.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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| Added Author |
Derris, Karen.
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Gummer, Natalie.
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| Added Title |
Defining Buddhisms |
| ISBN |
1845532317 |
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9781845532314 |
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1845530551 paperback |
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9781845530556 paperback |
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