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NOTE TO THE READER
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PART 1: TEMPLES, SACRED OBJECTS, AND ASSOCIATED RITUALS
Chapter 1
Temples and Monastic Complexes (Japan)
“A View of Temple Life and Practice,”
James Bissett Pratt
Chapter 2
Image Consecrations (Thailand)
“Creating and Disseminating the Sacred,”
Donald K. Swearer
Chapter 3
State Rituals and Ceremonies (Myanma)
“A Tooth Relic and the Legitimation of Power,”
Juliane Schober
Chapter 4
Village Rituals and Ceremonies (Thailand)
“Bun Phraawes,” S. J. Tambiah
PART II: MONASTIC PRACTICES
Chapter 5
The Ordination of Monks and Novices (Korea)
“Ordination in the Chogye Order,”
Robert E. Buswell
Chapter 6
Female Renunciants (Myanma[r]/Burma)
“Theravadin Religious Women,” Hiroko Kawanami
Chapter 7
Meditation (Japan)
“A Morning Star Meditation,” Taiko Yamasaki
Chapter 8
The Monastic Quest: A Biographical
Example (Tibet)
“The Biography of a Nun,” Hanna Havnevik
Chapter 9
Monastic Funerals (Thailand)
“The Cremation of a Senior Monk,”
Charles F. Keyes
PART III: LAY PRACTICE
Chapter 10
Lay Identity and Participation (China)
“Lay Praxis in a Mahayana Context,”
Holmes Welch
Chapter 11
Cosmology and Law (Tibet)
“Buddhist Secular Law: Doctrines in Context,”
Rebecca Redwood French
Chapter 12
Cosmology and Healing (Sri Lanka)
“Yaktovil: The Role of the Buddha and
Dhamma,” Jason A. Carbine
Chapter 13
Devotional Rituals: Recent Innovations (Sri Lanka)
“A New Theravadin Liturgy,” Richard Gombrich
Chapter 14
Death and Beyond (Japan)
“Memorializing One’s Mizuko,”
William R. LaFleur
PART IV: BUDDHISM IN THE WEST
Chapter 15
An American Example
“Transmitting the Dharma,” Philip Kapleau
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
About the author
Frank E. Reynolds is Professor of Buddhist Studies and History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His many edited books include Myth and Philosophy (1990) and Religion and Practical Reason (1994). Jason A. Carbine specializes in Buddhist Studies within the History of Religions Program at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Summary
Focuses on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. This work provides a historical overview and briefly characterizes the three major variants of Buddhist tradition. It also takes note of a distinctive form of Buddhism that is emerging among non-Asian practitioners in the West.
