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Schedneck, Brooke
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.8 n.1 |
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| Date | 2007.05 |
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| Pages | 57 - 68 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Aotobiography; Buddhism; Buddhists; Monks; Religions |
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| Abstract | This article argues that contemporary Buddhist memoirs are an important source to investigate and understand the phenomenon of modern Buddhism. Modern Buddhism is a current development in which Buddhists consider their tradition in new ways. The connections between life stories and modern Buddhist traits are striking. No document can get closer to the source of this movement than a life story. In this article I consider this in terms of the memoirs of the German Buddhist nun Ayya Khema and the Sinhalese monk Bhante Gunaratana. Although the figures may not represent all of the categories of modern Buddhism, the reader understands their choices in terms of their entire lives. The reader is constantly faced with the interplay between modern and traditional traits that make up their life stories. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 57
Modern Buddhism 59
Original Buddhism 59
Anti-ritual 60
Egalitarianism 61
Meditation 62
Engaged Buddhism 63
Bhante Gunaratana’s missionary work 63
Equality of women 64
Conclusion 66
References 67
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639940701295294 |
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| Hits | 355 |
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| Created date | 2007.11.22 |
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| Modified date | 2017.06.28 |
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