Figures of buddhist modernity in Asia [online] / ed. Jeffrey Samuels, Justin Thomas McDaniel, Mark Michael Rowe

Frontmatter Contents Contents by Buddhist Tradition Contents by Region and Country Introduction

Looking Backward Yangon Airport Tower Communications Worker The “Insane” Monk The Choices of a Priest on the Edge of Toyota City A Witness to Genocide A Monk between Worlds A Buddhist Media Pioneer Embracing Belief and Critique in an Academic Life Knowing Buddha Organization Educate, Agitate, Organize Sinhala Buddhism and Alcohol Consumption The Builder of Temporary Temples and Golden Corpses A Rakhine Monk from Bangladesh Rebuilding Temples after War Rebuilding Temples after War A Thai Mural Painter in Singapore

Looking Forward: Social-Psychological Care in a Troubled World Stabilizing the Rhythms of Life after the Tsunami President of the Theravada Nuns’ Order of Nepal The Rise of the “Clinical Religionist” Activist Temple Wife Modernizing Buddhist Proselytization in Hong Kong Modern Miracles of a Female Buddhist Master The Temple Is a Place of Solutions Maitreya’s IT Guy A Female Monk and the Hmong The Globally Local Priest Raising the Powerful Girl Child Raising the Powerful Girl Child A Modern Taiwanese Educator Inventor of a Buddhist Alphabet Trading in the Buddhist Life for Drugs Two Self-Sacrificing Bureaucrats A Facebook Buddhist A Daughter of Lamas, Yogis, and Shamans Taiwan’s New Age Buddhist A Modernist Monk with Chinese Characteristics An Anticommunist Monk and Violence

Looking Inward: New Asceticism in Modern Buddhism Art, Service, And A High-Rise Temple State Secularism and the Tibetan Non-monastic Tradition A Buddhist Spirit Medium An Act of Merit A Buddhist Lay Leader A Modern-Day Burmese Weikza Negotiating Religion and the State Mother and Son and Meditation Reconnecting with the Land (and the Gods) A Buddha in the Making The Singing Nun The Only Buddhist in the Village Stars for the Drowning Alien Behavior The Life and Times of a Shan Buddhist

Looking Outward: Local Buddhists Becoming Global Citizens Teaching Buddhism as a Second Language The Empowerment of Buddhist Women A Buddhist Mickey Mouse A Twenty-first Century Custodian The Return of the Dutch The Blogger Monk in Southern China Carving Playful Buddhas Prolific Writer, Cool Blogger Collector of Magic, Esquire A Sovereign Body beyond the Nation-State Post-Monk Life in New Zealand The First Theravada Bhikkhuni in Vietnam Monk, Writer, Educator, and International Buddhist On Being a “Human Being” Thousand Hands, Thousand Eyes Further Reading

Contributors Index

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