Challenging paradigms, Buddhism and nativism
Subtitle: framing identity discourse in Buddhist environments
By: edited by Henk Blezer, Mark Teeuwen
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789004231078; 9789004255685
Subjects: Buddhism; Nativismus; Buddhismus; Nativistic movements; Buddhism and culture; Interfaith relations; Relations
Description: Buddhism is often portrayed as a universalising religion that transcends the local and directs attention toward a transcendent dharma. Yet, wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that, directly or indirectly, root the dharma in native soil and history, and, in doing so, frame "the local" in Buddhist discourse. Occasionally, notably in Japanese Shinto and Tibetan Bön, this localising variety of "framing of discourse"--Here tentatively termed "nativism"-leads to the establishment of independent traditions that break free from Buddhism; yet, in other contexts, localising trends remain firmly embedded within Buddhism. In 'Challenging paradigms: buddhism and nativism' Teeuwen and Blezer offer a comparative study of localising responses to Buddhism in different Buddhist environments in Japan, Korea, Tibet, India and Bali.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Buddhism and nativism: framing identity discourse in Buddhist environments / Mark Teeuwen and Henk Blezer; title: The emergence of Shinkoku (Land of the Gods) ideology in Japan / Sato Hiroo; title: The Buddhist roots of Japanese nativism / Mark Teeuwen; title: A fourfold set of emanations, variegated currents and alien elements: contribution to the origins and early development of New Bon and its revelations / Jean-Luc Achard; title: The paradox of Bon identity discourse: some thoughts on the Rma Clan and the manner of Bsgrags Pa Bon, and on 'eternal' Bon, New Treasures, and New Bon / Henk Blezer; title: Ritual indigenisation as a debated issue in Tibetan Buddhism (11th to early 13th centuries) / Dan Martin; title: Buddhist nativism in its homeland / Johannes Bronkhorst; title: The 'unforced force' of religious identification: Indonesian Hindu-Buddhism between ritual integration, national control and nativist tendencies / Annette Hornbacher; title: O fleeting joyes of paradise, or: how nativism enjoyed its 15 minutes of f(r)ame in medieval Korea / Remco Breuker.