ritual; Buddhist modernism; meditation; psychology; psychotherapy; Theosophy; occultism
摘要
This essay is an inquiry into the religio-cultural background of the opposition to ritual evidenced by many adherents of Buddhist modernism. This background can be structured by three different kinds of questions—historical, philosophical, and cultural.
目次
1. Introduction 2. The Historical Question: Meditation as Paradigmatic of Buddhist Practice 3. The Philosophic Question: Creating a Psychologized Buddhism 4. Cultural Question: Meditation as Context-Neutral Mental Technology 5. Are Contexts Actually Important? 6. Conclusion: Steps Toward an Alternative Construction
