Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California, USA.
摘要
Buddhism in America provides the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the diverse landscape of US Buddhist traditions, their history and development, and current methodological trends in the study of Buddhism in the West, located within the translocal flow of global Buddhist culture.
Divided into three parts (Histories; Traditions; Frames), this introduction traces Buddhism's history and encounter with North American culture, charts the landscape of US Buddhist communities, and engages current methodological and theoretical developments in the field.
目次
Acknowledgements Figures Introduction: convergence and divergence Part One: Histories 1. A Very Short Introduction to Buddhism 2. Nineteenth Century Foundations 3. From Acculturation to the Counterculture 4. Diversity and Pluralism at the Century's End Part Two: Traditions 5. Theravada Traditions 6. Mahayana Traditions 7. Vajrayana Traditions 8. Post-modern Horizons? Part Three: Frames 9. Buddhist Medias: Art, Practice, and Representation 10. Buddhist Identities: Race, Gender, and Sexuality 11. Buddhist Engagements: Confronting Environmental and Social Suffering 12. Buddhist Modernities: US Buddhism in its Global Context Glossary Bibliography Index
