Land of Beautiful Vision : : Making a Buddhist Sacred Place in New Zealand / / Sally McAra.
Land of Beautiful Vision is the first book-length ethnography to address the role of material culture in contemporary adaptations of Buddhism and the first to focus on convert Buddhists in New Zealand. Sally McAra takes as her subject a fascinating instance of an ongoing creative process whereby a g...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in Contemporary Buddhism ;
15 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 21 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Spelling and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 .A New Tradition
- 2. Unplugging from the Grid
- 3. A Spiritual Home
- 4. Unsettling Place
- 5. The Stūpa Is Dhardo
- 6. Interanimation
- 7. ''Re-visioning'' Place
- Appendix 1. FWBO Figures
- Appendix 2. The Five Precepts
- Notes
- Glossary
- Sources Cited
- Index