Vol. 21 (2020): Special Focuses: Bad Buddhism and Alternate Buddhist Modernities

Special focus guest editors:

Bad Buddhism: Hannah Gould and Melyn McKay.

Alternate Buddhist modernities: John S. Harding, Victor Sōgen Hori, and Alexander Soucy.

Published: 2020-10-09

Special Focus: Bad Buddhism

An Introduction to Bad Buddhism

Hannah Gould, Melyn McKay

141-151
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Monastic Intimacies: An Anthropology of Good and Bad Buddhism among the Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna (P.R. China)

Roger Casas

153-169
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Authenticating Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Moral Dialogues in Ladakh

Rohit Singh

171-186
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The Mothers of the Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary

Nalika Gajaweera

187-204
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Connecting with and Distancing from: Transnational Influences in the Formation of Buddhist Identity and Practices in Bangladesh

Upali Sraman

205-222
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Doing good: Local and global understandings of Buddhism in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

Mariske Westendorp

223-239
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Japan’s “Priests’ Bars”: “Bad Buddhism” or Hope for the Future?

John Nelson

241-260
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Beyond “Bad Buddhism”: Conceptualizing Buddhist Counseling in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia

Kristina Jonutytė

261-276
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Bad Buddhists, Good Robots: Techno-Salvationist Designs for Nirvana

Hannah Gould, Holly Walters

277-294
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Special Focus: Alternate Buddhist Modernities

Introduction: Alternate Buddhist Modernities

John S. Harding, Victor Sōgen Hori, Alexander Soucy

1-10
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Branding a New Buddhist Movement: The New Kadampa Tradition’s Self- Identification as “Modern Buddhism”

Christopher Emory-Moore

11-28
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Reviving the Buddha: The Use of the Devotional Ritual of Buddha-Vandanā in the Modernization of Buddhism in Colonial Sri Lanka

Soorakkulame Pemaratana

29-50
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Buddhist Contramodernism: Shinnyo-en’s Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity

Casey R. Collins

51-69
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Research Articles

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

Sara Ann Swenson

71-86
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Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism

Ray Buckner

123-139
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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

117-121
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Book Reviews

Why I Am Not a Buddhist? by Evan Thompson

Thomas Calobrisi

87-92
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American JewBu, by Emily Sigalow

Vanessa Sasson

93-95
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Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community, by Caroline Starkey

Amy Langenberg

97-101
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Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science, by Clair Brown

Wolfgang Drechsler

103-109
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Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom, by Amy Langenberg,

Caroline Starkey

111-116
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Vol. 21 (2020): Special Focuses: Bad Buddhism and Alternate Buddhist Modernities

Special Focus: Bad Buddhism

An Introduction to Bad Buddhism

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

Authenticating Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Moral Dialogues in Ladakh

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

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

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

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

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

Bad Buddhists, Good Robots: Techno-Salvationist Designs for Nirvana

Special Focus: Alternate Buddhist Modernities

Introduction: Alternate Buddhist Modernities

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

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

Buddhist Contramodernism: Shinnyo-en’s Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity

Research Articles

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

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

Discussions and Critical Notes

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

Book Reviews

Why I Am Not a Buddhist? by Evan Thompson

American JewBu, by Emily Sigalow

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

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

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

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