Zen Conquests: Buddhist Transformations in Contemporary Vietnam

Soucy, Alexander (著)

著者

Soucy, Alexander (著)

出版年月日

2022.04

ページ

256

出版者

University of Hawaii Press

出版サイト

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/

出版地

Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Author Affiliation: Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

抄録

At the tail end of the twentieth century, a monk transformed a small village temple on the outskirts of Hanoi into a monastery and meditation center called Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc—a place where monastics and lay Buddhists could learn and practice Zen meditation. In time the original temple was replaced by numerous large buildings to accommodate meditation sessions, youth events, weddings, classes, and a variety of other activities designed to keep practitioners engaged. Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc's approach to Buddhism as a life commitment for all ages and genders has been very successful, attracting more than a thousand Buddhists to its weekly services. It joined Thiền phái Trúc Lâm, a much larger organization started by Thích Thanh Từ in southern Vietnam that has expanded to northern Vietnam and internationally. In Zen Conquests, Alexander Soucy presents not only the first ethnography of Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc and its followers, but also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam.
Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc's Zen tradition purports to be a continuation of the only Zen Buddhist sect founded in Vietnam: the fourteenth-century Trúc Lâm Zen School. However, the movement can also be seen as the product of Buddhism's globalization, born from the DT Suzuki-inspired interest in Zen in South Vietnam during the American War. Despite its claims to be authentically Vietnamese Zen, it more closely resembles Modernist versions of Buddhism practiced by Western converts in North America than anything Vietnamese. Soucy maintains that it is only by looking at the processes of globalization that Vietnamese Buddhism (both in the context of Vietnam but also in the Vietnamese diaspora) can be properly understood. He convincingly approved the continued influence of transnational, pan-Asian, and global flows of migration and communication on the development of multiple forms of Buddhism worldwide.

Introduction 1

Part 1 Context
CHAPTER ONE The Rise of Zen in Twentieth-Century Vietnam 29
CHAPTER TWO The Sùng Phúc Zen Monastery 49

Part 2 Characteristics
CHAPTER THREE Secular Buddhism 85
CHAPTER FOUR Nationalism and Internationalism 117

Part 3 Participants
CHAPTER FIVE Zen Women 137
CHAPTER SIX Zen Men 154
CHAPTER SEVEN Zen for All Ages 171

Conclusion 199
Notes 209
Bibliography 223
Index 239

ISBN

9780824892197 (E-Book); 0824892194 (E-Book); 9780824889982 (hc); 9780824893132 (pbc)

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