Asian country. The study of Sri Lankan Buddhism, like the studies of Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism in general, is largely dominated by white scholars and remains mired within the empiricist protocols of area studies. 2 But Scott's work, unprecedented
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Talal Asad
Talal Asad, Jonathan Boyarin, Nadia Fadil, Hussein Ali Agrama, Donovan O. Schaefer, and Ananda Abeysekara
On Rewriting Buddhism
Or, How Not to Write a History
Ananda Abeysekara
even Mahayana entrenched in making outmoded yet normative assessments about Buddhism, history, and politics ( Abeysekara 2019a , 2019b ). 2 One of the concepts central to these endeavors is ‘agency’. 3 And before it gained inroads into Buddhist
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2022
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Road to the Periphery
An Account of Border-Making through Infrastructure
Sherin Ajin
and China. It is in its modest hamlet of Ogyenling that the Sixth Dalai Lama was born, making it one of the revered routes of pilgrimage in Mahayana Buddhism. Nestled in the scenic lap of the Eastern Himalayas, it is also one of the popular tourist
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Affective Futures and Relative Eschatology in American Tibetan Buddhism
Amy Binning
prophesied to his followers (as recounted in the Prajñāpāramitāsūtra , a set of texts in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition that translates as “The Perfection of Wisdom”) that after his death he would persist in the form of the written word during the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- 45–60 (16 total)