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Attention to lived religion has significantly shaped religious studies and has only recently impacted the field of Buddhism. Rather than asserting a separation between "real" religion happening within sacred scriptures and official organizations on the one hand, and "folk" traditions practiced by everyday adherents on the other, the lived religion model understands the religious experience as far more complex, implying an ongoing negotiation of practice and belief, which occurs within and outside of official, congregational settings. Given the religion's openness to incorporating and adapting various religious traditions, understanding belief systems, doctrinal interpretations, and ethical commitments on the ground are particularly salient within Buddhist traditions.
Approaching Buddhism as a lived tradition has transformed the discipline over the past few decades, shifting attention to the relationship between doctrines, beliefs, and practices among ordinary adherents. The Oxford Handbook of Lived Buddhism fills a major gap in Buddhist studies scholarship. Topical emphasis for each chapter derives from the reading Buddhist texts, and utilizing ethnographic methods, but all center Buddhist individuals and communities, along with scholarly analysis. Authors' observations reflect on how these dynamics intermingle with modernity, education, media, and sacred spaces. The lived religion approach offers insight into Buddhism's variety of cultural practices that inform traditions, relationships between the laity and monastics, significances of sacred spaces and experiences, changing demographics of the religion, and Buddhism's influence on material culture, artistic expression, and social interaction. Analyzing Buddhism from the ground up, rather than the top down, complicates our conception of the religion and how it intersects with other areas of culture, including race, class, and gender. As such, the Handbook will be a timely contribution, opening new possibilities for study alongside texts and institutions.
Contents
Introduction: Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck
1. Teaching Buddhism as a Lived Religion
Beverley Foulks McGuire
2. Stories of Lived Buddhism in Sanskrit Literature
Karen Muldoon-Hules
3. Pathways to Monastic Life: The Case of Eison (1201-1290)
Lori Meeks
4. Eison, Preaching, and Performance in Medieval Japan
David Quinter
5. Lived Buddhism and Mount Wutai, China in the Northern Dynasties (439-589) and Tang (618-907) Periods
Susan Andrews
6. Representation Matters: Women in Tibetan Life Writing
Alison Melnick Dyer
7. Historical Legends of the Buddha in the Region of Bongabhumi
Sanjoy Barua Chowdhury
8. Material Culture in Pure Land Buddhist Practice
Kendall Marchman
9. Living Sacred Landscape: Space, Cosmology, and Community in the Buddhist Temples in Northern Thailand
Piyawit Moonkham and Michael Chladek
10. Between Science and Supernatural Power: Tea and Buddhist Communities in Taiwan
Kai Shmushko
11. Buddhist Pilgrimage and Living Religious Heritage in North India
David Geary
12. Material Buddhist Culture in Healing: Taiwanese Approaches to Healing Illnesses After Death
Emily S. Wu
13. Prayers for Academic Success in South Korea
Florence Galmiche
14. Being Young and Buddhist in Precarious Times: Exploring the Relational, Contextual, and Digital in Lived Buddhism
Kim Lam
15. Raising Temple Family Members: Intergenerational Temple Dynamics in Japan
Jessica Starling
16. Passing the Light of Buddhism in Malaysia through Dharma Class
Tan Lee Ooi
17. Disseminating Buddhism in Transnational Organizations
Wei-yi Cheng
18. Burmese American Youth Experiences with Theravada Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area
Rachelle Saruya
19. On Ecological Degradation and the Practice of Purification in Urban Mongolia
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
20. Charity in a Working-Class Taiwanese Buddhist Community: Forming Affinities with Food to Build the Pure Land on Earth
Justin R. Ritzinger
21. Reconfiguring Buddhism for Youth in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Dat Manh Nguyen
22. Buddhist "Magic" and Buddhist Modernism: Karma, Relatedness, and Hungry Ghosts in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Neena Mahadev
23. Hindu-Buddhist Conversion in Nepal
Cameron David Warner
24. Lived Traditions and the Pursuit of Happiness in Thailand
Rachelle M. Scott
25. Meeting the Buddha: Introductory Buddhist Retreats and Spiritual Tourism in Britain
Caroline Starkey
26. How to Make an Ancestor: Death and Funeral Rituals in Laos
Vanina Bouté
27. Preserving the Forests and Walks for Peace in Cambodia
Napakadol Kittisenee
28. Critique, Reform, and Ethical Innovation: Buddhist Philosophies in Contemporary Tibetan Hip Hop
Kati Fitzgerald
29. Healing Through Days of Mindfulness and Retreats in the Southern United States: The Magnolia Grove Meditation Practice Center in the Plum Village Tradition
Brooke Schedneck
