Challenging paradigms : Buddhism and Nativism : framing identity discourse in Buddhist environments / / edited by Henk Blezer, Mark Teeuwen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Blezer, Henk.; Teeuwen, Mark.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Buddhism is often portrayed as a universalising religion that transcends the local and directs attention toward a transcendent dharma. Yet, wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that, directly or indirectly, root the dharma in native soil and history, and, in doing so, frame ‘the local’ in Buddhist discourse. Occasionally, notably in Japanese Shinto and Tibetan Bön, this localising variety of ‘framing of discourse’—here tentatively termed ‘nativism’—leads to the establishment of independent traditions that break free from Buddhism; yet, in other contexts, localising trends remain firmly embedded within Buddhism. In Challenging Paradigms: Buddhism and Nativism Teeuwen and Blezer offer a comparative study of localising responses to Buddhism in different Buddhist environments in Japan, Korea, Tibet, India and Bali.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Henk Blezer and Mark Teeuwen -- Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments / Mark Teeuwen and Henk Blezer -- The Emergence of Shinkoku (Land of the Gods) Ideology in Japan / Satō Hiroo -- The Buddhist Roots of Japanese Nativism / Mark Teeuwen -- A Fourfold set of Emanations, Variegated Currents and Alien Elements: Contribution to the Origins and Early Development of New Bön and its Revelations / Jean-Luc Achard -- The Paradox of Bön Identity Discourse Some Thoughts on The RMA Clan and The Manner of Bsgrags Pa Bon, and On ‘Eternal’ Bön, New Treasures, and New Bön / Henk Blezer -- Ritual Indigenisation as a Debated Issue in Tibetan Buddhism (11th to early 13th Centuries) / Dan Martin -- Buddhist Nativism in its Homeland / Johannes Bronkhorst -- The ‘Unforced force’ of Religious Identification: Indonesian Hindu-Buddhism Between Ritual Integration, National Control and Nativist Tendencies / Annette Hornbacher -- O Fleeting Joyes of Paradise, or: How Nativism Enjoyed its 15 minutes of F(r)ame in Medieval Korea / Remco Breuker -- List of Contributors / Henk Blezer and Mark Teeuwen -- Glossary / Henk Blezer and Mark Teeuwen -- Maps / Henk Blezer and Mark Teeuwen -- Index / Henk Blezer and Mark Teeuwen.