Overview

Over its long history, Buddhism has never been a simple monolithic phenomenon, but rather a complex living tradition—or better, a family of traditions—continually shaped by and shaping a vast array of social, economic, political, literary, and aesthetic contexts across East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Written by undergraduate educators, Buddhisms in Asia offers a guide to Buddhism's rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses. It introduces fundamental yet often underrepresented Buddhist texts, concepts, and material in their historical contexts; presents the major ""ecologies"" of Buddhist belief, practice, and cultural expression; and provides methodological insights regarding how best to infuse Buddhist content into undergraduate courses in the humanities and social sciences. The text aims to represent ""Buddhisms"" by approaching the subject from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, including art history, anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and pedagogy.

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Author:   Nicholas S. Brasovan ,  Micheline M. Soong
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438475851

ISBN 10:   1438475853
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Foreword Peter D. Hershock Acknowledgments Introduction Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong 1. The Buddhist Canon and the Liberal Arts Classroom Andy Alexander Davis 2. Awakening in the Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism: Reading a Gongan/Koan Comparatively Ann Pirruccello 3. Seeking the Pure Land (in the Classroom) Kendall Marchman 4. The Representation and Transformation of Nāgas, Dragons, and Dragon Kings in Chinese Painting Jacqueline Chao 5. Trials of Devotion: Orphaned Children and the Boundaries of Horror in Japanese Buddhist Fiction R. Keller Kimbrough 6. The Buddhist Gift: Merit-Making, Donations, and the Ambivalence of Reward Jessica Falcone 7. The Puzzle of the Socially Engaged Buddhist Agent and a Thai Buddhist Philosophical Response Geoff Ashton 8. Five Themes toward Teaching the History of Vietnamese Buddhism Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox 9. Not Knowing Is Most Intimate: Introducing Buddhism into a Humanities Course Jane Collins Contributors Index

Reviews

I teach an introductory course on Buddhism on a regular basis, and every single chapter of this book gave me ideas for materials I could incorporate, new modules I might develop, and/or better ways I might organize and present existing content to students. I think that the book will be particularly useful to educators in Asian studies who are not themselves specialized in areas of Buddhism or religion. The collection gives them the information on Buddhist philosophy, doctrine, and practice that they would need to better incorporate the role of Buddhism into classes on Asian culture, history, society, and politics. - Leah Kalmanson, coeditor of Buddhist Responses to Globalization

Author Information

Nicholas S. Brasovan is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas and the author of Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism: An Interpretive Engagement with Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), also published by SUNY Press. Micheline M. Soong is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Hawaiʻi Pacific University.

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