内容简介

In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses - sometimes trivial, often profound - to some of the most important concerns of the modern era.

作品目录

Note on Buddhist Terminology......Page 10

1. Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity......Page 14

2. The Spectrum of Tradition and Modernism......Page 38

3. Buddhism and the Discourses of Modernity......Page 72

4. Modernity and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism......Page 100

5. Buddhist Romanticism: Art, Spontaneity, and the Wellsprings of Nature......Page 128

6. A Brief History of Interdependence......Page 160

7. Meditation and Modernity......Page 194

8. Mindfulness, Literature, and the Affirmation of Ordinary Life......Page 226

9. From Modern to Postmodern?......Page 252

Notes......Page 278

Bibliography......Page 288