Buddhist Architecture in America - Building for Enlightenment

This book is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities. It will be of interest to religion, architecture, US history, Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies and libraries of Buddhist communities across the United States and the world.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Buddhism and Architecture: Space, Time, and Heart; 2. Buddhist Architecture and its Nineteenth-Century American Beginnings; 3. The Twentieth-Century Expansion of Architectonic Buddhism; 4. The Proliferation of Buddhist Architecture in America; 5. The Mandala Form and Buddhist Space in America; 6. Conclusions and Considerations

About the author

Robert Edward Gordon is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Arizona, USA, and a Fellow at the UArizona Center for Buddhist Studies. His work encompasses a broad range of interests: Eastern art and architecture, art and economics, freedom and aesthetics, art and poverty, and humanistic geography. His writings can be found in The Wall Street Journal, the Japanese American National Museum's Traveling Exhibition, the journals Space and Culture, Philosophies, Social Philosophy and Policy, The Athenaeum Review, and others.

Summary

This book is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities. It will be of interest to religion, architecture, US history, Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies and libraries of Buddhist communities across the United States and the world.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Gordon, Robert (University of Vermont Gordon, Gordon Robert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032318455
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231845-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, North America, Buddhist life & practice, Religious buildings, North America (USA and Canada), Buddhist life and practice, Architecture: religious buildings, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General