Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization /

Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization / / ed. by Linda Learman.

This insightful volume dispels the common notion that Buddhism is not a missionary religion by revealing Asian Buddhists as active agents in the propagation of their faith. It presents at the same time a new framework with which to study missionary activity in both Buddhist and other religious tradi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Chandler, Stuart,
Clarke, Peter B.,
Huang, C. Julia,
Kemper, Steven,
LeVine, Sarah,
Learman, Linda,
Payne, Richard K.,
Rocha, Cristina,
Tanabe, Jr,
Tanabe, Jr.,
Tuttle, Gray,
HerausgeberIn:
Learman, Linda,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Topics in Contemporary Buddhism ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Dharmapala's Dharmaduta and the Buddhist Ethnoscape
  • 2. The Theravada Domestic Mission in Twentieth-Century Nepal
  • 3. Grafting Identity: The Hawaiian Branches of the Bodhi Tree
  • 4. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invisibility of the Shingon Mission to the United States
  • 5. Globalization and the Pursuit of a Shared Understanding of the Absolute: The Case of Soka Gakkai in Brazil
  • 6. Being a Zen Buddhist Brazilian: Juggling Multiple Religious Identities in The Land of Catholicism
  • 7. Spreading Buddha's Light: The Internationalization of Foguang Shan
  • 8. The Compassion Relief Diaspora
  • 9. Uniting Religion and Politics in a Bid for Autonomy: Lamas in Exile in China and America
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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