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Joshua Esler
Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese
Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society
Lexington Books, 2020

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While Tibetan Buddhism continues to face restrictions and challenges imposed by the state in contemporary China, it has in fact entered mainstream Chinese society with a growing middle-class and even celebrity following at the same time. In Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in... Read More

Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, “Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover’s Journey into Christianity and Judaism” (Rowman, 2015)

Neela Bhattacharya Saxena
Absent Mother God of the West
A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism
Rowman & Littlefield, 2015

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In Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover’s Journey into Christianity and Judaism (Rowman, 2015) Neela Bhattacharya Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism. We... Read More

Matty Weingast
The First Free Women
Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
Shambhala, 2020

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A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices. The Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) is the oldest collection of known writings from Buddhist women and one of the earliest collections of women’s literature in India. Composed during the... Read More

Steven Heine, “Readings of Dōgen’s ‘Treasury of the True Dharma Eye'”(Columbia UP, 2020)

Steven Heine
Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"

Columbia University Press, 2020

New Books in Buddhist Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith September 9, 2020 Yakir Englander 

The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist collections, composed during a period of remarkable religious diversity and experimentation. The text is complex and compelling, famed for... Read More

Alicia Turner, “The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking
The Irish Buddhist
The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire
Oxford University Press, 2020

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Buddhism has always been a world religion, but its popularity in the West really dates only from the late nineteenth century, when much of the Buddhist world was subject to European colonial rule. Of all those Westerners who became interested in, and sought to promote Buddhism at this time, perhaps... Read More

Naomi Appleton, “Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40” (Equinox, 2020)

Naomi Appleton
Many Buddhas, One Buddha
A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40
Equinox Publishing, 2020

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Naomi Appleton‘s new book Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40 (Equinox Publishing, 2020) introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or “One Hundred Stories”, and explores some of its perspectives on buddhahood. This text, composed in Sanskrit... Read More

Mark A. Nathan, “From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)

Mark A. Nathan
From the Mountains to the Cities
A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea
University of Hawaii Press, 2018

New Books in Buddhist Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network July 28, 2020 Trevor McManis

From the Mountains to the Cities A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), written by Mark A. Nathan, is a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to... Read More

Christopher Key Chapple
A Conversation with Chris Chapple
Part II, Living Landscapes
New Books Network, 2020

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Join us as we continue discussion with Dr. Christopher Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Layola Marymount University as we dive into his new book Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas (SUNY Press, 2020). The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the... Read More

Mayfair Yang, “Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China” (Duke UP, 2020)

Mayfair Yang
Re-enchanting Modernity
Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Buddhist Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Sociology July 23, 2020 Victoria Lupascu

In Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China (Duke University Press, 2020), Mayfair Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou, China. Drawing on twenty-five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Yang shows how the local practices of... Read More

Angela S. Chiu, “The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)

Angela S. Chiu
The Buddha in Lanna
Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand
University of Hawaii Press, 2017

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For centuries, wherever Thai Buddhists have made their homes, statues of the Buddha have provided striking testament to the role of Buddhism in the lives of the people. The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) offers the first in-depth historical study... Read More