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- catalog abstract "Bringing together 15 essays by international Buddhist scholars, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the life of Buddhism. The contributors focus on a range of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from New York to Tibet.".
- catalog contributor b11785632.
- catalog contributor b11785633.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Bringing together 15 essays by international Buddhist scholars, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the life of Buddhism. The contributors focus on a range of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from New York to Tibet.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Temples, sacred objects, and associated rituals -- Temples and monastic complexes (Japan) -- "A view of temple life and practice" / James Bissett Pratt -- Image consecrations (Thailand) -- "Creating and disseminating the sacred" / Donald K. Swearer -- State rituals and ceremonies (Myanma) -- "A tooth relic and the legitimation of power" / Juliane Schober -- Village rituals and ceremonies (Thailand) -- "Bun Phraawes" / S.J. Tambiah -- pt. 2. Monastic practices -- The ordination of monks and novices (Korea) -- "Ordination in the Chogye order" / Robert E. Buswell -- Female renunciants (Myanma[r]/Burma) -- "Theravadin religious women" / Hiroko Kawanami -- Meditation (Japan) -- "A morning star meditation" / Taiko Yamasaki -- The monastic quest: a biographical example (Tibet) -- "The biography of a nun" / Hanna Havnevik -- Monastic funerals (Thailand) -- "The cremation of a senior monk" / Charles F. Keyes -- pt. 3. Lay practices -- Lay identity and participation (China) -- "Lay praxis in a Mahayana context" / Holmes Welch -- Cosmology and law (Tibet) -- "Buddhist secular law: doctrines in context" / Rebecca Redwood French -- Cosmology and healing (Sri Lanka) -- "Yaktovil: the role of the Buddha and Dhamma" / Jason A. Carbine -- Devotional rituals: recent innovations (Sri Lanka) -- "A new theravadin liturgy" / Richard Gombrich -- Death and beyond (Japan) -- "Memorializing one's Mizuko" / William R. LaFleur -- pt. 4. Buddhism in the West -- An American example -- "Transmitting the Dharma" / Philip Kapleau.".
- catalog extent "x, 230 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520211057 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520223373 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The life of religion ; 1".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "294.3 21".
- catalog subject "BQ4012 .L54 2000".
- catalog subject "Buddhism Customs and practices.".
- catalog subject "Buddhism.".
- catalog subject "Religious life Buddhism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Temples, sacred objects, and associated rituals -- Temples and monastic complexes (Japan) -- "A view of temple life and practice" / James Bissett Pratt -- Image consecrations (Thailand) -- "Creating and disseminating the sacred" / Donald K. Swearer -- State rituals and ceremonies (Myanma) -- "A tooth relic and the legitimation of power" / Juliane Schober -- Village rituals and ceremonies (Thailand) -- "Bun Phraawes" / S.J. Tambiah -- pt. 2. Monastic practices -- The ordination of monks and novices (Korea) -- "Ordination in the Chogye order" / Robert E. Buswell -- Female renunciants (Myanma[r]/Burma) -- "Theravadin religious women" / Hiroko Kawanami -- Meditation (Japan) -- "A morning star meditation" / Taiko Yamasaki -- The monastic quest: a biographical example (Tibet) -- "The biography of a nun" / Hanna Havnevik -- Monastic funerals (Thailand) -- "The cremation of a senior monk" / Charles F. Keyes -- pt. 3. Lay practices -- Lay identity and participation (China) -- "Lay praxis in a Mahayana context" / Holmes Welch -- Cosmology and law (Tibet) -- "Buddhist secular law: doctrines in context" / Rebecca Redwood French -- Cosmology and healing (Sri Lanka) -- "Yaktovil: the role of the Buddha and Dhamma" / Jason A. Carbine -- Devotional rituals: recent innovations (Sri Lanka) -- "A new theravadin liturgy" / Richard Gombrich -- Death and beyond (Japan) -- "Memorializing one's Mizuko" / William R. LaFleur -- pt. 4. Buddhism in the West -- An American example -- "Transmitting the Dharma" / Philip Kapleau.".
- catalog title "The life of Buddhism / edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Jason A. Carbine.".
- catalog type "text".