Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe
出版地
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany [波鴻, 北萊茵-威斯特伐利亞, 德國]
資料類型
期刊論文=Journal Article
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Author Affiliation: Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union, USA.
關鍵詞
religious life-writing; Buddhism; Pietism; Yogi Chen; Billy Graham; Dalai Lama; autobiography
摘要
Explores the differences in self-representation as found in the autobiographical writings of Yogi Chen, Billy Graham, and the Dalai Lama. While the latter two are widely recognized in American popular religious culture, the former is virtually invisible outside the immigrant Chinese American community. This invisibility is consistent with fact that the religious praxes of immigrant communities remain largely under-studied.
However, one additional factor appears to be the mismatch between the expectations of the dominant religious culture and the immigrant culture in terms of the ways in which religious leaders represent themselves. Both Billy Graham and the Dalai Lama present themselves in very humble terms, consistent with the expectations of the Pietist background to American popular religion. Yogi Chen on the contrary tends toward a self-aggrandizing style, which although consistent with the competitive nature of premodern Tibetan religious culture is not congruent with the expectations of American popular religion.
目次
Abstract 34 Key Words 34 Introduction 34 Religious life-writing 36 What it is 37 What it does 43 What we can learn from it 48 Awakening, Instrumentality, Visions 49 Awakening Narrative: Śākyamuni Buddha as Exemplar 49 Centrality of Karma: causal and contracausal understandings of the relation of practice and birth 53 Visionary Record 55 When religious life-writings meet, or Whatever happened to yogi chen? 57 Visions and Miracles 58 The One Autobiography of Billy Graham 61 Redemptive Narratives 64 Vocation 65 Conversion 65 Redemption 66 Piety 66 The Three Autobiographies of the Dalai Lama 67 Competing tropes: Impermanence and Piety, transcendence and Immanence 71 Conclusion 73 References 74
