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- RESOURCE> H-Buddhism "Generations" project
cited on H-Editor Resources Page
- Re: QUERY. Research on Buddhism in Africa?
- Re: QUERY. Research on Buddhism in Africa?
- NEW BOOK>Jewels of the Middle Way: The
Madhyamaka Legacy of Atiśa and His Early Tibetan Followers by James B.
Apple
RESOURCE>
H-Buddhism "Generations" project cited on H-Editor Resources Page
by A. Charles Muller
Dear Colleagues,You may be interested in knowing that the "Generations of Buddhist Studies" project organized by Chuck Prebish has been cited as an exemplary project on the H-Net Editorial Resources site:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/877/discussions/3778040/great-project-h-buddhism
Regards,
Chuck
Re:
QUERY. Research on Buddhism in Africa?
by Matthew Orsborn
Dear Sarah and colleagues,I recall that in the late 1990s Michel Clasquin and Prof. Kobus Krüger from the University of South Africa (UNISA) had a monograph about Buddhism in South Africa, Kruger, J. S., & Clasquin, M. (1999). Buddhism and Africa.
I found this Table of Contents online, though I'm not sure if it matches the printed version. It seems very close from memory of reading the original in the 2000s:
Buddhism in Africa: some strategic issues
Kobus Krüger 1
The Buddha of suburbia: a nineteenth-century South African imagining
Darrel Wratten 13
Buddhism in South Africa: its past history, present status and likely future
Louis Van Loon 31
Zen and the Art of Living
Heila Downey JDPSN 45
Fo Kuang Shan in Africa: heritage and future plans
Master Hui Li 55
The Kagyu Lineage Tree: its branches in Southern Africa (a personal view)
Hugh Laue 67
The Role of Buddhist Groups in South Africa
Alison Smith 77
African religion and the Africanisation of Religions - a panel discussion
Georgina Hamilton & Danile Busakwe 85
African Buddhists? Some issues in Buddhist transmission across cultures
Raoul Birnbaum 93
Ubuntu Dharma - Buddhism and African thought
Michel Clasquin 111
Postscript 124
Select Bibliography: South African Works on Buddhism 125
Index 131
More recently, Jens Reinke at Leipzig has undertaken some field work at one of the above mentioned Buddhist sites. He is probably best to comment on the content thereof.
I hope that the above is useful to your student.
Re:
QUERY. Research on Buddhism in Africa?
by Jens Reinke
Dear Professor Jacoby,I am a PhD candidate at Leipzig University, Germany. My dissertation examines the global spread of the Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan by considering ethnographic data I collected at its temples in Taiwan, Los Angeles, South Africa, and the People’s Republic of China.
There will be an article of mine published in a special edition on transnational Buddhism in the upcoming issue of Contemporary Buddhism about the Fo Guang Shan Nan Hua Temple in South Africa.
The article might be helpful to your student.
Kind regards,
Jens Reinke
NEW
BOOK>Jewels of the Middle Way: The Madhyamaka Legacy of Atiśa and His Early
Tibetan Followers by James B. Apple
by James Apple
Colleagues, I am please to announce the publication of a new book. Please see the following information. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Jim Apple
JEWELS OF THE MIDDLE WAY
The Madhyamaka Legacy of Atiśa and His Early Tibetan Followers
2019, Wisdom Publications
Hardcover, 474 pages, 6x9 inches
$49.95
ISBN 9781614294764
Jewels of the Middle Way documents an important tradition of Madhyamaka and provides insight into both the late Indian Buddhist blend of Madhyamaka and tantra and the Kadampa school founded by the Indian Buddhist master Atisa.
This book presents a detailed contextualization of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school in India and Tibet, along with translations of several texts in the Bka’ gdams gsung ’bum (Collected Works of the Kadampas), recently recovered Tibetan manuscripts that are attributed to Atiśa and Kadampa commentators. These translations cohere around Atiśa’s Madhyamaka view of the two realities and his understanding of the practice and the nature of the awakening mind (bodhicitta).
The book is organized in three parts based on the chronology of Atiśa’s teaching of Madhyamaka in India and Tibet: (1) Lineage Masters, the Mind of Awakening, and the Middle Way; (2) Articulating the Two Realities; and (3) How Mādhyamikas Meditate. Each part focuses on a specific text, or set of texts, specifically related to Atiśa’s Middle Way. The authorship and date of composition for each work is discussed along with an outline of the work’s textual sources followed by an analysis of the content.
PAGES: 474
ISBN 9781614294764
https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/jewels-middle-way
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