Syllabus/achievement requirements

Ashiwa, Yoshiko. "Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Buddhism in China." In Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank (eds.) Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009: 43-73.

McMahan, David L.: The Making of Buddhist Modernism. Oxford University Press, 2008: 1-265.

Harris, Ian. “Buddhism, Politics and Nationalism”.  In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2012: 177-195.

Keown, Damien. “Buddhist Ethics: A Critique”. In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2012: 215-233.

King, Sallie B. “Socially Engaged Buddhism.” In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2012: 195-215.

Payne, Richard K. “Buddhism and the Powers of the Mind”. In In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2012: 233-257.

Swearer, Donald K. 1999. “Centre and Periphery: Buddhism and Politics in Modern Thailand.” In Ian Harris (ed.), Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-Century Asia. London: Continuum, 1999:194-228

McCargo, Duncan.  “The Changing Politics of Thailand’s Buddhist Order.” Critical Asian Studies 44 (4), 2012: 627-642.

Chapman, John. “The Pilgrimage and Return to Vietnam of Exiled Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.” In Philip Taylor (ed.), Modernity and Re-enchantment:Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007: 297-341.

Soucy, Alexander. The Buddha Side: Gender, Power, and Buddhist Practice in Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012 (Introduction and chapter 2, pp. 1-15, 37-59.)

Fisher, Gareth. “Buddhism in China and Taiwan.” In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2012: 89-113.

Fisher, Gareth. 2012. "Religion as Repertoire: Resourcing the Past in a Beijing Buddhist Temple." Modern China 38: 346 –376.

Ji Zhe. 2008. "Secularization as Religious Restructuring: Statist Institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and Its Paradoxes." In M. M.-h. Yang (ed.): Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. University of California Press, 2008: 233-261.

Cabeón, José Ignacio. “State Control of Tibetan buddhist Monasticism in the People’s Republic of China.” In M.M.-h Yang (ed.):  Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. University of California Press, 2008:261-291.

Jacoby, Sarah and Antonio Terrone. “Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism.” In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World.  London: Routledge, 2012: 69-89.

Germano, David. “Re-membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People’s Republic of China.” In Melvyn C. Goldstein  and Kapstein, Matthew T. (eds.) : Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. University of California Press, 1998: 53-95.

Terrone, Antonio: "Tibetan Buddhism beyond the Monastery: Revelation and Identity in rNying ma Communities" in Images of Tibet in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries, EFEO, coll. « Études thématiques» (22.2), Paris, 2008: 747-779.

Makley, Charlene: “The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo.” In Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik (eds.), Women in Tibet. London: Hurst 2005: 259-285.

Karma Lekshe Tsomo: “Reviving Bhiksuni Ordination: Implications for the Tibetan Buddhist Diaspora”. Paper presented at the XIII Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Ulaanbaatar 2013 (8 pages, forthcoming)      

Chilson, Clark: "Searching for a Place to Sit: Buddhists in Modern Japan." In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2012: 50-68.

Covell, Stephen Grover: Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation, 2005. University of Hawaii Press. xii. 256 pages.  (selected chapters)

Pori Park, Trial and Error in Modernist Reforms: Korean Buddhism

under Colonial Rule, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2009. (chapters 4 and 5)

Jin.Y.Park, Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism. NY, SUNY Series in

Korean Studies, 2010. (chapters 5, 6, and 12)

Baumann, Martin. “Modernist Interpretations of Buddhism in Europe.” In David L. McMahan: Buddhism in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 2012: 89-113.

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