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Home > Archives > Vol 21 (2020)

Table of Contents

Special Focus: Alternate Buddhist Modernities

Introduction: Alternate Buddhist Modernities John S. Harding, Victor Sōgen Hori, Alexander Soucy

PDF 1-10

Branding a New Buddhist Movement: The New Kadampa Tradition’s Self- Identification as “Modern Buddhism” Christopher Emory-Moore

PDF 11-28

Reviving the Buddha: The Use of the Devotional Ritual of Buddha-Vandanā in the Modernization of Buddhism in Colonial Sri Lanka Soorakkulame Pemaratana

PDF 29-50

Buddhist Contramodernism: Shinnyo-en’s Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity Casey R. Collins

PDF 51-69

Special Focus: Bad Buddhism

An Introduction to Bad Buddhism Hannah Gould, Melyn McKay

PDF 141-151

Monastic Intimacies: An Anthropology of Good and Bad Buddhism among the Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna (P.R. China) Roger Casas

PDF 153-169

Authenticating Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Moral Dialogues in Ladakh Rohit Singh

PDF 171-186

The Mothers of the Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary Nalika Gajaweera

PDF 187-204

Connecting with and Distancing from: Transnational Influences in the Formation of Buddhist Identity and Practices in Bangladesh Upali Sraman

PDF 205-222

Doing good: Local and global understandings of Buddhism in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Mariske Westendorp

PDF 223-239

Japan’s “Priests’ Bars”: “Bad Buddhism” or Hope for the Future? John Nelson

PDF 241-260

Beyond “Bad Buddhism”: Conceptualizing Buddhist Counseling in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia Kristina Jonutytė

PDF 261-276

Bad Buddhists, Good Robots: Techno-Salvationist Designs for Nirvana Hannah Gould, Holly Walters

PDF 277-294

Research Articles

Feeling for Fate: Karma and the Senses in Buddhist Nuns’ Ordination Narratives Sara Ann Swenson

PDF 71-86

Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism Ray Buckner

PDF 123-139

Discussions and Critical Notes

Translation through a Zen Mind: Sam Hamill’s Translation of Li Bai’s “Du Zuo Jing Ting Shan” Jiyong Geng, Qiang Pi

PDF 117-121

Book Reviews

Why I Am Not a Buddhist? by Evan Thompson Thomas Calobrisi

PDF 87-92

American JewBu, by Emily Sigalow Vanessa Sasson

PDF 93-95

Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community, by Caroline Starkey Amy Langenberg

PDF 97-101

Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science, by Clair Brown Wolfgang Drechsler

PDF 103-109

Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom, by Amy Langenberg, Caroline Starkey

PDF 111-116