Buddhism and transgression: the appropriation of Buddhism in the contemporary West
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Main Author: Konik, Adrian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2009
Series:Studies in the history of religions 125
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index
Cover13; -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I THE EMERGENCE OF DISCIPLINARY/BIO-POWER AND THE ARISING OF DISCURSIVE TENSION IN WESTERN SOCIETY -- Chapter One The problem of effective critique -- Chapter Two Disciplinary/bio-power and rational autonomy -- Chapter Three Secularized/medicalized confession and the problematization of rational autonomy -- PART II A REAPPRAISAL OF WESTERN INTEREST IN TIBET AND VAJRAY256;NA BUDDHISM -- Chapter Four The blank canvas of Tibet -- Chapter Five Lobsang Rampa's The Third Eye: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama -- Chapter Six John Blofeld's The Wheel of Life: The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist -- Chapter Seven Anagarika Govinda's autobiographical The Way of the White Clouds -- PART III ENGAGING WITH THE DISCURSIVE LIMITS OF TRANSGRESSION -- Chapter Eight The 'technological mind, ' discourse analysis, and the emergence of a new type of socially engaged contemporary Western Buddhism -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 191 p.)
ISBN:9047441109
9789047441106

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