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From Theravada to Tantra: The Making of an American Tantric Buddhism? |
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Gleig, Ann
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.14 n.2 |
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| Date | 2013.11 |
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| Pages | 221 - 238 |
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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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| Note | Ann Gleig is an assistant professor the University of Central Florida at Orlando. She has published numerous chapters and articles and is co-editor (with Lola Williamson) of the forthcoming Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American (Suny Press, 2012). She is also an editor for Religious Studies Review for the sociology, anthropology and psychology of religion.Address: University of Central Florida (PSY 226), 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, Fl 32816-1352, USA. |
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| Keyword | Vipasyana (Buddhism); Renunciation (Law); Theravada Buddhism; Buddhists |
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| Abstract | This paper examines recent innovations in the American vipassana or insight community, specifically a current I identify as ‘West Coast Vipassana’ that has revisioned the Theravadin Buddhist goal of liberation, from a transcendental condition that demands a renunciation of the world, to an ‘embodied enlightenment’ that affirms everyday householder life as a site for awakening. I draw on Jeffrey J. Kripal's tantric transmission thesis to advance an essentially tantric hermeneutic of West Coast Vipassana. I argue that while West Coast Vipassana is originally based in Theravada Buddhism, an Asian renouncer tradition that sharply differentiates between the immanent and transcendent, it has taken a markedly tantric turn in America. I also note, however, that it considerably differs from traditional Buddhist tantric traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism or esoteric Japanese Buddhism in being distinctively modern and American. |
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| Table of contents | The emergence of West Coast Vipassana 222
Reading Spirit Rock: dilution or development? 227
West Coast Vipassana: an American tantric tradition in the making? 229
Why American Tantra? The value of a cultural-metaphysical hermeneutic 233
Notes 236
References 236
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2013.832496 |
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| Hits | 196 |
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| Created date | 2014.09.26 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.14 |
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