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Constituting Communities by John Clifford Holt
Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravada Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravada communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings.-
Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory
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The Body
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Masters of Mahamudra
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Buddha Nature
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Buddhadhamma
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In Search of the Dharma
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Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community
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Visions of Sukhavati
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The Buddha from Dolpo
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The Logic of Unity
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Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism
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Wholeness Lost and Wholeness Regained
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Tibetan Buddhism
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Ethics of Tibet
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Tao-Sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra
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Portraits of Buddhist Women
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A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes
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Inner Peace, World Peace
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A Dose of Emptiness
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Principles of Buddhist Psychology
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The Buddha Within
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The Poetry of Han-shan
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The Heart Sutra Explained
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Me and Mine
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Existence and Enlightenment in the Lankavatara-Sutra
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Sounds of Valley Streams
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Path to the Middle: Oral Madhyamika Philosophy in Tibet
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Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen
John Clifford Holt is Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College and the author of The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka. Jacob N. Kinnard is Assistant Professor of Religion at the College of William and Mary and the author of Imaging Wisdom: Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian Buddhism. Jonathan S. Walters is Associate Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Whitman College and the coeditor (with Ronald Inden and Daud Ali) of Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780791456910 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791456919 |
| Title | Constituting Communities |
| Author | John Clifford Holt |
| Series | Suny Series In Buddhist Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2003-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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