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Author : Tai Thu Nguyen
Publisher : CRVP
ISBN 13 : 1565180984
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book The History of Buddhism in Vietnam written by Tai Thu Nguyen and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Thuy-Loan Nguyen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527564460
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam written by Laura Thuy-Loan Nguyen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century, King-Monk Trần Nhân Tông founded the Trúc Lâm Thiền (Chan/Zen) sect. During the Golden Age in Vietnamese Buddhist history, the sect flourished under three patriarchs with renowned Thiền masters. Unfortunately, the Trúc Lâm sect faded over the following centuries, and Thiền Buddhism in Vietnam, for the most part, disappeared. In the late twentieth century, a growing new religious movement led by Thích Thanh Từ, a Pure Land monk, called for a restoration of Trúc Lâm Thiền Buddhism. Who is Thích Thanh Từ? How and why did he choose to revive this particular sect and its emancipation practices? Trúc Lâm currently boasts hundreds of monasteries and thousands of monks and nuns in Vietnam and beyond, but how have the forces of modernity influenced its original traditions? Through existing literature and extensive onsite fieldwork, this book analyzes the history and revival of a forgotten Buddhist sect and examines the movement’s reform.
Author : Thich Thien-an
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146291151X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam written by Thich Thien-an and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1992-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam provides, for Western readers, a much needed introduction to this important religion—its history, practices, concepts, and role in the lives of the people, the nation, and Vietnamese culture. Recently, Vietnam has aroused the attention of the Western world and made the task of understanding Vietnamese Buddhism more imperative. This Buddhist book gives a comprehensive account of Buddhism in Vietnam and the various Zen Buddhist schools in Vietnam and their relation to Buddhism in other Asian countries. Students of Vietnamese culture and Zen Buddhism will find this penetrating and enlightening study of incalculable value.
Author : Thiền Tâm (Thích.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Buddhism of Wisdom and Faith written by Thiền Tâm (Thích.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shawn Frederick McHale
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824843045
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Print and Power written by Shawn Frederick McHale and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed matter soared between 1920 and 1945 and in the process transformed Vietnamese public life and shaped the modern Vietnamese consciousness. Print and Power begins with an overview of Vietnam's lively public spheres, bringing debates from Europe and the rest of Asia to Vietnamese studies with nuance and sophistication. It examines the impact of the French colonial state on Vietnamese society as well as Vietnamese and East Asian understandings of public discourse and public space. Popular taste, rather than revolutionary or national ideology, determined to a large extent what was published, with limited intervention by the French authorities. A vibrant but hierarchical public realm of debate existed in Vietnam under authoritarian colonial rule. The work goes on to contest the impact of Confucianism on premodern and modern Vietnam and, based on materials never before used, provides a radically new perspective on the rise of Vietnamese communism from 1929 to 1945. Novel interpretations of the Nghe Tinh soviets (1930-1931), the first major communist uprising in Vietnam, and Vietnamese communist successes in World War II built an audience for their views and made an extremely alien ideology comprehensible to growing numbers of Vietnamese. In what is by far the most thorough examination in English of modern Vietnamese Buddhism and its transformations, McHale argues that, contrary to received wisdom, Buddhism was not in decline during the 1920-1945 period; in fact, more Buddhist texts were produced in Vietnam at that time than at any other in its history. This finding suggests that the heritage of the Vietnamese past played a crucial role in the late colonial period. Print and Power makes a significant contribution to Vietnamese and Asian studies and will be of compelling interest to those in the fields of comparative religion and European colonialism.
Author : Robert J. Topmiller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813191661
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Lotus Unleashed written by Robert J. Topmiller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South Vietnamese attitudes toward the war, the insurgency, and U.S. intervention, and lays bare the dissension within the U.S. military. The Lotus Unleashed is one of the few studies to illuminate the impact of internal Vietnamese politics on U.S. decision-making and to examine the power of a nonviolent movement to confront a violent superpower.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Religions of South Vietnam in Faith and Fact, NAVPERS 15991; 1967 written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Soucy
Publisher : Topics in Contemporary Buddhis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Buddha Side written by Alexander Soucy and published by Topics in Contemporary Buddhis. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Explores how gender and age affect understandings of what it means to be a Buddhist [in Vietnam]." -- from Book Jacket.
Author : Nhất Hạnh (Thích.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888375138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Master Tang Hôi written by Nhất Hạnh (Thích.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Tang Hoi explores the life and teachings of Tang Hoi. The earliest known Buddhist meditation master of Vietnam, Tang Hoi's teachings are as insightful and valuable today as in the third century.
Author : Alexander Soucy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865855
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Buddha Side written by Alexander Soucy and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most common description of the supernatural landscape in Vietnam makes a distinction between Buddhist and non-Buddhist “sides.” The “Buddha side” (ben phat) is the focus of this investigation into the intersection of gender, power, and religious praxis. Employing an anthropological approach to Buddhist practice that takes into account modes of action that are not only socially constructed and contextual, but also negotiated by the actors, The Buddha Side uniquely explores how gender and age affect understandings of what it means to be a Buddhist. In seeking to map out the ways and meanings of Buddhist engagement, Alexander Soucy examines everything from the skeptical statements of young men and devotional performances of young women to the pilgrimages of older women and performances of orthodoxy used by older men to assert their position within the pagoda space. Soucy draws on more than four years’ experience conducting ethnographic research in Hanoi to investigate how religious practice is grounded in the constitution and marking of social identity. From this in-depth view, he describes the critical role of religion in shaping social contexts and inserting selves into them. Religion can thus be described as a form of theatre—one in which social identities (youth, old age, masculinity, femininity, authority) are constructed and displayed via religious practice. A compelling look at the performative aspect of Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam, The Buddha Side will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in Buddhism as it is practiced on the ground.
Author : Nhất Hạnh (Thích.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vietnam written by Nhất Hạnh (Thích.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views on the situation in Vietnam by a Buddhist intellectual and Director of the School of Social Studies at the Van Hanh University at Saigon.
Author : Philip Taylor
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739127391
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Modernity and Re-enchantment written by Philip Taylor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative of a new wave of anthropological research on religion in Vietnam, Modernity and Re-enchantment brings together in a single book the latest and best research available on this topic. Its lively and original descriptions deftly evoke the burgeoning field of religiosity in contemporary Vietnam. With case studies into a great variety of religious practices, it covers more ground than the small handful of single-authored books currently available on religion in Vietnam.
Author : Allison J. Truitt
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295748486
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Pure Land in the Making written by Allison J. Truitt and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, tens of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants have settled in Louisiana, Florida, and other Gulf Coast states, rebuilding lives that were upended by the wars in Indochina. For many, their faith has been an essential source of community and hope. But how have their experiences as migrants influenced their religious practices and interpretations of Buddhist tenets? And how has organized religion shaped their understanding of what it means to be Vietnamese in the United States? This ethnographic study follows the monks and lay members of temples in the Gulf Coast region who practice Pure Land Buddhism, which is prevalent in East Asia but in the United States is less familiar than forms such as Zen. By treating the temple as a site to be made and remade, Vietnamese Americans have developed approaches that sometimes contradict fundamental Buddhist principles of nonattachment. This book considers the adaptation of Buddhist practices to fit American cultural contexts, from temple fundraising drives to the rebranding of the Vu Lan festival as Vietnamese Mother’s Day. It also reveals the vital role these faith communities have played in helping Vietnamese Americans navigate challenges from racial discrimination to Hurricane Katrina.
Author : Jeffrey Samuels
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824858581
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia written by Jeffrey Samuels and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes. The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a “new asceticism,” while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes—looking backward, forward, inward, and outward—reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country.
Author : Richard A. Ruth
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860853
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book In Buddha's Company written by Richard A. Ruth and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Buddha’s Company explores a previously neglected aspect of the Vietnam War: the experiences of the Thai troops who served there and the attitudes and beliefs that motivated them to volunteer. Thailand sent nearly 40,000 volunteer soldiers to South Vietnam to serve alongside the Free World Forces in the conflict, but unlike the other foreign participants, the Thais came armed with historical and cultural knowledge of the region. Blending the methodologies of cultural and military history, Richard Ruth examines the individual experiences of Thai volunteers in their wartime encounters with American allies, South Vietnamese civilians, and Viet Cong enemies. Ruth shows how the Thais were transformed by living amongst the modern goods and war machinery of the Americans and by traversing the jungles and plantations haunted by indigenous spirits. At the same time, Ruth argues, Thailand’s ruling institutions used the image of volunteers to advance their respective agendas, especially those related to anticommunist authoritarianism. Drawing on numerous interviews with Thai veterans and archival material from Thailand and the United States, Ruth focuses on the cultural exchanges that occurred between Thai troops and their allies and enemies, presenting a Southeast Asian view of a conflict that has traditionally been studied as a Cold War event dominated by an American political agenda. The resulting study considers such diverse topics as comparative Buddhisms, alternative modernities, consumerism, celebrity, official memories vs. personal recollections, and the value of local knowledge in foreign wars. The war’s effects within Thailand itself are closely considered, demonstrating that the war against communism in Vietnam, as articulated by Thai leaders, was a popular cause among nearly all segments of the population. Furthermore, Ruth challenges previous assertions that Thailand’s forces were merely "America’s mercenaries" by presenting the multiple, overlapping motivations for volunteering offered by the soldiers themselves. In Buddha’s Company makes clear that many Thais sought direct involvement in the Vietnam War and that their participation had profound and lasting effects on the country’s political and military institutions, royal affairs, popular culture, and international relations. As one of only a handful of academic histories of Thailand in the 1960s, it provides a crucial link between the keystone studies of the Phibun-Sarit years (1946–1963) and those examining the turbulent 1970s.
Author : K. M. Fierke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029236
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Political Self-Sacrifice written by K. M. Fierke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a variety of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning, and non-violent martyrdom.
Author : Nhật Từ (Thích)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786046162704
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Buddhism in Vietnam written by Nhật Từ (Thích) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
