6 edition of Theravada Buddhism and the British encounter found in the catalog.
Published
2006
by Routledge in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | Elizabeth Harris. |
| Series | Routledge critical studies in Buddhism |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | BQ359 .H37 2006 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3406538M |
| ISBN 10 | 0415371252 |
| LC Control Number | 2005022225 |
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Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter is primarily a work for those pursuing academic study rather than a text for practitioners, but it makes a useful contribution to the history of modern by: Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter: Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) - Kindle edition by Harris, Elizabeth J.
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This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism. BOOK REVIEWS THERAVADA BUDDHISM AND THE BRITISH ENCOUNTER: RELIGIOUS, MISSIONARY, AND COLONIAL EXPERIENCE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY SRI LANKA.
By Elizabeth Harris. London: Routledge, pp. Of all the facets of the multifaceted interactions among Buddhists and Christians, the one sure to generate the most heat is mission: Christians. BRITISH BUDDHISM This book is the first comprehensive account of Buddhism in contemporary Britain.
It provides a survey of the seven largest Buddhist organizations, including both traditional schools and more controversial ‘new Buddhist movements’: the Forest Sangha and the Samatha Trust (Theravada), Soto Zen Serene Reflection.
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British Buddhism presents a useful insight into contemporary British Buddhist practice. It provides a survey of the seven largest Buddhist traditions in the United Kingdom, including the Forest Sangha (Theravada) and the Samatha Trust (Theravada), the Serene Reflection Meditation tradition (Soto Zen) and Soka Gakkai (both originally Japanese), the Tibetan Karma Kagyu and New Kadampa 5/5(2).
Her publications include: What Buddhists Believe (Oneworld, ): Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter: Religious, missionary and colonial experience in nineteenth century Sri Lanka (Routledge, ): Buddhism for a Violent World: A Christian Reflection (Epworth, /now published by SCM).
Yet over the years I continued to encounter friends and relatives who practised Buddhism. It seemed mysterious and dangerous for a Christian to take an interest in Buddhist belief : Madeleine Wightman. Theravada (Pāli, literally "School of the Elders") is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest extant school's adherents, termed theravādins, have preserved their version of the Gautama Buddha's teaching in the Pāli Canon.
The Pāli Canon is the only complete Buddhist canon surviving in a classical Indian language, Pāli, which serves as the school's sacred Author: Michael Kicey.Buddhism (/ ˈ b ʊ d ɪ z əm /, US: / ˈ b uː d-/) is the world's fourth-largest religion with over million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on original teachings attributed to the Buddha and resulting interpreted originated in ancient India as a.The book traces three main historical phases in the encounter from to and gives a sensitive and nuanced exegesis of the cultural and political influences that shaped the early British understanding of Buddhism.
This work fills a significant gap in scholarship on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and its subsequent transmission to the West.
