Popularizing Buddhism

Popularizing BuddhismExplores the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching. The first book to focus on the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching in Asia, Popularizing Buddhism examines the role of preaching in Buddhist devotional life and its relationship to the vernacular Sinhala literature of late medieval Sri Lanka. Blending ethnography, textual and doctrinal studies, and an analysis of untranslated Sinhala vernacular Buddhist texts, Mahinda Deegalle traces the

gentle streams

a beautiful Austrian who harbors a dangerous secret

and positive institutions

” Unsatisfied with life as a lowly swineherd

Lost Illusions looks at scenes of Parisian and provincial life involving friendship

A city on the move

Both texts are accompanied by extensive notes and introductory essays to aid students and specialists alike

This is about a Korean man's everyday life in the milieu of contemporary America

whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the field of religious studies in the latter half of the twentieth century

There are the Shi'a who depict ʿAlī as a spiritual leader fighting against false accusations and the worldly ambitious

seasoned researchers share their knowledge

Contributors to this volume share a concern with ideas that constitute a common core of Buddhist and American philosophy