Vol. 19 (2018): Special Focus: Translating Buddhism

Special focus guest editors: Caroline Starkey and Matt Coward-Gibbs

Published: 2018-12-27

Research Articles

Tibet and China’s Orientalists: Knowledge, Power, and the Construction of Minority Identity

John Powers

1-19
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Special Focus: Translating Buddhism

Translating Buddhism and the Politics of Ownership: Between Asia(s) and West(s)

Caroline Starkey, Matt Coward-Gibbs

39-42
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Dharmavidya’s Engagement with Honen: How a Contemporary British Pureland Buddhist Teacher retrieves his Japanese Spiritual Heritage

Richard Ollier

43-59
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Of Demons and Drama: Ritual Syncretism of Sinhala Exorcism and Forum Theatre

Matt Coward-Gibbs

61-75
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Environmental Buddhism Across Borders

Susan Darlington

77-93
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The Buddhist Dharma for Sale: Who Owns the Past? The Internet and Objects of Worship

Linda Wallinder-Pierini

95-111
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Adapting the Dharma: Buddhism and Contemporary Theatre Training

Deborah Middleton, Daniel Plá

113-125
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Book Reviews

The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw, by Erik Braun

Michael Charney

21-23
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Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts, by Scott Mitchell

Funie Hsu

25-28
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Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border, by Thomas A. Borchert

Zhen Ma

29-32
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Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment through Film, by Francesca Cho

Ron Green

33-37
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Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism, by Paul Cohen

Alexander Horstmann

127-131
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Meditation, Buddhism, and Science. Edited by David McMahan and Erik Braun

Ira Helderman

133-141
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