Not knowing is most intimate: Introducing Buddhism into a humanities course / Jane Collins Awakening in the Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism: reading a Gongan/Koan comparatively / Ann Pirruccello -- Seeking the pure land (in the Classroom) / Kendall Marchman -- Representation and transformation of Nagas, Dragons, and Dragon Kings in Chinese Painting / Jacqueline Chao -- Trials of devotion: orphaned children and the boundaries of horror in Japanese Buddhist fiction / R. Keller Kimbrough -- Buddhist gift: merit-making, donations, and the ambivalence of reward / Jessica Falcone -- Puzzle of the socially engaged Buddhist agent and a Thai Buddhist philosophical response / Geoff Ashton -- Five themes toward teaching the history of Vietnamese Buddhism / Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox -- Not knowing is most intimate: Introducing Buddhism into a humanities course / Jane Collins
Summary:
Over its long history, Buddhism has never been a simple monolithic phenomenon, but rather a complex living tradition—or better, a family of traditions—continually shaped by and shaping a vast array of social, economic, political, literary, and aesthetic contexts across East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Written by undergraduate educators, Buddhisms in Asia offers a guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses. It introduces fundamental yet often underrepresented Buddhist texts, concepts, and material in their historical contexts; presents the major ́ecologieś of Buddhist belief, practice, and cultural expression; and provides methodological insights regarding how best to infuse Buddhist content into undergraduate courses in the humanities and social sciences. The text aims to represent ́Buddhismś by approaching the subject from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, including art history, anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and pedagogy.
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