Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture, by Eviatar Shulman. Oxford University Press, 2021. 274pp. Hb £64.00. ISBN-13: 9780197587867.
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{"title":"Science and Development in Thai and South Asian Buddhism, by David L. Gosling","authors":"Elizabeth J Harris","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.26649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.26649","url":null,"abstract":"Science and Development in Thai and South Asian Buddhism, by David L. Gosling. Routledge, 2020. 308pp. Hb £130, Pb 36,99. ISBN-13: 97800320846023.","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138599731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157-1270, by Alastair Gornall. UCL Press, 2020. XIII-269pp. Hb £40, ISBN 9781787355156.
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This article analyses the work of the Dharma Master Taixu, one of the leading figures of Chinese Buddhism in the Republican Period. Its analysis focuses on the meaning of concepts such as “human life,” “freedom,” and “karma” in Taixu’s seminal writings on the role of Buddhism in modern society, politics, and science from the 1920s and early1930s. The succession of reading notes and reflections on these quintessential concepts in Taixu’s works aims at shedding some light on the relationship between subject and object, and the key question of the autonomy of the subject in modern Chinese Buddhism. Finally, by trying to illuminate the content of the ideas of subject and freedom in the work of this key figure, whose work is a foundational building block in the modernization of Buddhism in East Asia, the present discussion aims at casting some new light on the origins and theoretical foundations of contemporary Buddhism in Taiwan as well as in the broader Chinese cultural sphere.
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The late Mahayana text Nairatma-pariprccha "Questions regarding No-Self" is available to us in a cluster of four versions: one in Sanskrit, one in Tibetan, and two in Chinese. The text is relevant as a witness to Buddhist debates with non-Buddhists in the second half of the first millennium. After reviewing previous research on the text, a discussion aims to delineate the identities of the speaker and his questioners, as well as a rough date for the text. A final section provides an annotated translation of one of the Chinese versions (T1643).
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Part One of this article provides a brief history of what is known of the practice and spread of Buddhism among Dravidian speaking peoples during the lifetime of the Buddha and in the centuries after his passing. It further provides an overview of the impact of the Dravidian language on the vocabulary and structure of Old and Middle Indic. Part Two examines the early Buddhist Patimokkha transmission, which was based on the practice of earlier religious groups, and discusses approximately fifty non-IA technical terms. Their retention in Pali, it argues, represents the adoption of certain cultural and religious practices from indigenous peoples of South Asia and may represent a translation or adaptation, in part, of an earlier Dravidian language Patimokkha.
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The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim. Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 358pp. HB. $45.00, ISBN-13: 9780674987197.
{"title":"The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim","authors":"Yeonju Lee","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.25428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.25428","url":null,"abstract":"The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim. Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 358pp. HB. $45.00, ISBN-13: 9780674987197.","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43736472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Buddhism and its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations, edited by C. V. Jones. Oxford University Press, 2022. 230pp. Hb. £65.00. ISBN-13: 9780197266991.
{"title":"Buddhism and its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations, edited by C. V. Jones","authors":"E. Harris","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.25429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.25429","url":null,"abstract":"Buddhism and its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations, edited by C. V. Jones. Oxford University Press, 2022. 230pp. Hb. £65.00. ISBN-13: 9780197266991.","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48831016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inasmuch as Buddhism’s professed goal is the elimination of all attachment to the material world, a pre-occupation with that materiality would immediately strike the disinterested observer as strange, if not improper. Indeed, the monastic tradition eschews engagement with what we colloquially refer to as artistic endeavour, as it detracts from the discipline required to attain the ultimate goal of “snuffing out” the flame that perpetuates suffering (LaFleur 2003, Introduction). Yet, the path to liberation is trodden in the material world, and its manifestations, perceived and processed through the physical senses, are necessary instruments and tools to that end. Cognition of the nature of actions and their fruits can only be achieved by engaging with their manifestations and permutations, using the techniques and disciplines that have been developed in the course of Buddhism’s history. However, the monastic tradition forms but a small part of the Buddhist tradition and the contributions to this volume are concerned in the main with artefacts that circulated outside the cloisters. They present a fascinating purview of how Buddhist ideas and practices circulated in pre-modern Japanese society, showing core beliefs about the Buddhist cosmos and how people from non-monastic walks of life (mainly in the spheres of politics and the aristocracy) availed themselves of that understanding of the world they lived in.
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