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

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,...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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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.