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Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West (in English)
Harding, John S. ; Hori, Victor Sogen ; Soucy, Alexander (Author)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West (in English) - Harding, John S. ; Hori, Victor Sogen ; Soucy, Alexander
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Synopsis "Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West (in English)"
Buddhism in the Global Eye focuses on the importance of a global context and transnational connections for understanding Buddhist modernizing movements. It also explores how Asian agency has been central to the development of modern Buddhism, and provides theoretical reflections that seek to overcome misleading East-West binaries.Using case studies from China, Japan, Vietnam, India, Tibet, Canada, and the USA, the book introduces new research that reveals the permeable nature of certain categories, such as "modern", "global", and "contemporary" Buddhism. In the book, contributors recognize the multiple nodes of intra-Asian and global influence. For example, monks travelled among Asian countries creating networks of information and influence, mutually stimulating each other's modernization movements. The studies demonstrate that in modernization movements, Asian reformers mobilized all available cultural resources both to adapt local forms of Buddhism to a new global context and to shape new foreign concepts to local Asian forms.