Architects of Buddhist Leisure : Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks / / Justin Thomas McDaniel.
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaiʻi Press,, [2017] ©[2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Buddhism.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 pages). |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Table of Contents:
- Monuments and metabolism : Kenzo Tange and the attempts to bring new architecture to Buddhism's oldest site
- Ecumenical parks and cosmological gardens : Braphai and Lek Wiriyaphan and Buddhist spectacle culture
- Buddhist museums and curio cabinets : Shi Fa Zhao and ecumenism without an agenda.