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Author Blezer, Henk

Title Challenging Paradigms : Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments
Published Brill, 2013

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Contents Buddhism and nativism: framing identity discourse in Buddhist environments / Mark Teeuwen and Henk Blezer -- The emergence of Shinkoku (Land of the Gods) ideology in Japan / Sato Hiroo -- The Buddhist roots of Japanese nativism / Mark Teeuwen -- 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 -- 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 -- Ritual indigenisation as a debated issue in Tibetan Buddhism (11th to early 13th centuries) / Dan Martin -- Buddhist nativism in its homeland / Johannes Bronkhorst -- The 'unforced force' of religious identification: Indonesian Hindu-Buddhism between ritual integration, national control and nativist tendencies / Annette Hornbacher -- O fleeting joyes of paradise, or: how nativism enjoyed its 15 minutes of f(r)ame in medieval Korea / Remco Breuker
Summary Wherever Buddhism spreads, it also sparks local identity discourses that frame 'the local' in Buddhist discourse. Buddhism and Nativism offers a comparative study of localising responses to Buddhism in different Buddhist environments in Japan, Korea, Tibet, India and Bali
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Buddhism -- Relations.
Buddhism and culture.
Nativistic movements.
Buddhism.
Buddhism and culture.
Interfaith relations.
Nativistic movements.
Buddhismus
Nativismus
Japan
Tibet
Indonesien
Korea
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013018460
ISBN 1299690939
9781299690936
9789004231078
9004231072
9789004255685
9004255680