In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses -- sometimes trivial, often profound -- to some of the most important concerns of the modern era.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity
- 2: The Spectrum of Tradition and Modernism
- 3: Buddhism and the Discourses of Modernity
- 4: Modernity and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism
- 5Buddhist Romanticism: Art, Creativity, and the Wellsprings of Nature
- 6: A Brief History of Interdependence
- 7: Meditation and Modernity
- 8: Mindfulness, Literature, and the Affirmation of the World
- 9: From Modern to Postmodern?
