Buddhists

Todd Lewis 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2014년 04월 21일 출간

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Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives ofPractitionersprovides a series of case studies of Asian and modern Western Buddhists, spanning history, gender, and class, whose lives are representative of the ways in which Buddhists throughout time have embodied the tradition.Portrays the foundational principles of Buddhist belief through the lives of believers, illustrating how the religion is put into practice in everyday lifeTakes as its foundation the inherent diversity within Buddhist society, rather than focusing on the spiritual and philosophical elite within BuddhismReveals how individuals have negotiated the choices, tensions, and rewards of living in a Buddhist societyFeatures carefully chosen case studies which cover a range of Asian and modern Western BuddhistsExplores a broad range of possible Buddhist orientations in contemporary and historical contexts

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Notes on Contributors ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1Todd LewisPart I Buddhists in the Earliest andMedieval Eras 111 The Female Householder Mallika 13Kristin Scheible2 Bhadda Kundalakesa:The Ex-Jain 21Alice Collett3 Two Noted Householders of the Buddha&'s Time: Upasika Vishakha and Upasaka Anathapindika 29Todd Lewis4 Nagarjuna:TheGreatPhilosopher 39Joseph Walser5 WhoIsUncleDonpa? 52David J. Cooper6 Ma-chig Lab-dron: Mother of Tibetan Buddhist Chod 62Michelle J. SorensenPart II Buddhist Lives in theWest 717 I.B. Horner and the Twentieth-Century Development of Buddhism in theWest 73Grace G. Burford8 Takyu: A Young Buddhist Nun at a Ch&'an Temple in the English Midlands 80George D. Chryssides9 Refuge and Reconnection: One LaoWoman&'s Story 87Stewart Jobrack10 Conversion, Devotion, and (Trans-)Mission: Understanding Ole Nydahl 96Burkhard Scherer11 Noah Levine: Punk Rocker and Buddhist Meditation Teacher 107Brooke Schedneck12 Legendary Beat Poet: Allen Ginsberg 115Tony Trigilio13 Dr. Stephen John Fulder: Founder of Vipassana in Israel 124Joseph Loss14 Amala Sensei: Zen Priest 133Sally McAraPart III Buddhist Lives in South and Southeast Asia 14515 Pawinee Bunkhun:The Life of a Thai Buddhist Upasika 147Rachelle M. Scott16 Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma 157Bradley S. Clough17 Corporal Monk: Venerable Sudinna&'s Journey from the Sri Lankan Army to the Buddhist Sangha 165DanielW. Kent18 The Lure of Renunciation and theWays of theWorld: MaechiiWabi ofThailand 172Sid Brown19 Becoming aTheravada Modernist Buddhist in Contempora

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저자(글) Todd Lewis

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Todd Lewis is Professor in the Religious Studies Department at The College of the Holy Cross. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the social history of Buddhism. His most recent book, Sugata Saurabha: A Poem on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya of Nepal, was awarded the Toshide Numata Book Prize for the best book in Buddhist Studies in 2010 and the Khyentse Foundation Award in 2012, for the best translation of a Buddhist text. In 2011, Professor Lewis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.