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The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
Popular representations of Buddhism often depict it as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. Yet embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions. The essays within The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice push beyond traditional representations of Buddhism as divided into static schools and traditions, highlighting instead the contested and negotiated character of individual and group identities. This volume will serve as a corrective to the common misconception that Buddhist practice is limited to seated meditation and that ritualized activities are not an integral dimension of authoritative Buddhist practice. Essays in this handbook explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. Authors foreground the role of the body, examining how the senses, gender, specific emotions, and material engagements impact religious experience. They highlight, as well, the multiplicity of methods and theoretical perspectives that scholars of Buddhism use in their research and writing, including field-based, textual, and historical approaches. Given the fluidity and diversity of Buddhist practices, the question that animates this volume is: What makes a given practice Buddhist?
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The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
Popular representations of Buddhism often depict it as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. Yet embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions. The essays within The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice push beyond traditional representations of Buddhism as divided into static schools and traditions, highlighting instead the contested and negotiated character of individual and group identities. This volume will serve as a corrective to the common misconception that Buddhist practice is limited to seated meditation and that ritualized activities are not an integral dimension of authoritative Buddhist practice. Essays in this handbook explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. Authors foreground the role of the body, examining how the senses, gender, specific emotions, and material engagements impact religious experience. They highlight, as well, the multiplicity of methods and theoretical perspectives that scholars of Buddhism use in their research and writing, including field-based, textual, and historical approaches. Given the fluidity and diversity of Buddhist practices, the question that animates this volume is: What makes a given practice Buddhist?
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Popular representations of Buddhism often depict it as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. Yet embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions. The essays within The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice push beyond traditional representations of Buddhism as divided into static schools and traditions, highlighting instead the contested and negotiated character of individual and group identities. This volume will serve as a corrective to the common misconception that Buddhist practice is limited to seated meditation and that ritualized activities are not an integral dimension of authoritative Buddhist practice. Essays in this handbook explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. Authors foreground the role of the body, examining how the senses, gender, specific emotions, and material engagements impact religious experience. They highlight, as well, the multiplicity of methods and theoretical perspectives that scholars of Buddhism use in their research and writing, including field-based, textual, and historical approaches. Given the fluidity and diversity of Buddhist practices, the question that animates this volume is: What makes a given practice Buddhist?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190632946
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/20/2022
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 704
File size: 31 MB
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About the Author

Paula Arai is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. She is author of Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra--The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo, Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns, and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women's Rituals. Her research has received a range of support, including from Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has curated exhibits of Iwasaki's Heart Sutra paintings at the Museum of Art at Louisiana State University, the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, and the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach Florida. Kevin Trainor is Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont. His work has centered on Buddhist relic practices in South Asia, highlighting the centrality of material mediations of the Buddha's presence and the importance of embodied practices in the formation and dissemination of early Buddhist traditions in India and Sri Lanka. His publications, as author or editor, include Relics, Ritual and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition, Embodying the Dharma: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia, co-edited with David Germano, Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide, and Relics in Comparative Perspective

Table of Contents

Introduction: Embodiment and Sense Experience Kevin Trainor and Paula Arai Regional Perspectives Chapter 2. Practice in South Asia Miranda Shaw Chapter 3. Practice in Southeast Asia Nathan McGovern Chapter 4. Practice in East Asia Paula Arai and Eun-su Cho Chapter 5. Practice in Central Asia/Himalayas Todd Lewis Chapter 6. Practice in Europe and North America Scott Mitchell Chapter 7. Globalized Forms of Practice Inken Prohl Material Mediations Chapter 8. Relics and Images John Strong Chapter 9. The Agency of Images Susan Huntington Chapter 10. Texts and Rituals Natalie Gummer Chapter 11. Interactions with Built Environments Abhishek Amar Chapter 12. Interactions with "Natural" Environments Julia Shaw Bodies in Transition Chapter 13. Buddhist Healing Practices Sienna Craig Chapter 14. Pilgrimage Ian Reader Chapter 15. Dance as Vajrayana Practice Miranda Shaw Chapter 16. Buddhist Death Practices Margaret Gouin Body-Mind Transformations Chapter 17. Aural Practices of Chanting & Protection Mahinda Deegalle Chapter 18. Pure Land Practices Charles Jones Chapter 19. Koan Practice Jeff Shore Human & Nonhuman Interactions Chapter 20. Practices of Veneration & Offering Jeffrey Samuels Chapter 21. Ritual Identification and Purification in Esoteric Practice Richard K. Payne Chapter 22. Heavenly Rebirth and Buddhist Soteriology Stephen Jenkins Domestic and Monastic Practices Chapter 23. Women's Ordination Hiroko Kawanami Chapter 24. Monastic Authority in Medieval Japan Lori Meeks Chapter 25. Monastic Discipline and Local Practice Vesna Wallace Chapter 26. Disciplining the Body-Mind Charles Korin Pokorny Chapter 27. Home Altars Linda Ho Pech? Chapter 28. Calendrical, Life-cycle, and Periodic Rituals Jonathan Walters Chapter 29. Food Practices Lisa Grumbach Modernities and Emergent Forms of Practice Chapter 30. Nation-State & Monastic Identity Tom Borchert Chapter 31. Tree Ordination & Global Sustainability Susan Darlington Chapter 32. an embodied dharma of race, gender, and sexuality Jasmine Syedullah Chapter 33. Buddhist Chaplaincy Jitsujo T. Gauthier Chapter 34. Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Practitioner Relations Elizabeth Harris Chapter 35. Internet-based Practices Louise Connelly Chapter 36. Contemplative Science and Buddhist Science John D. Dunne Chapter 37. Seeing Through Mindfulness Practices Erik Braun Contributor Bios Thematic Index
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