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| Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India | ||
| 作者 | Ober, Douglas (著) |
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| 卷期 | Special Focus: Buddhism in the Anthropocene |
| 出版日期 | 2023 |
| 頁次 | 394 |
| 出版者 | Stanford University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.sup.org/ |
| 出版地 | Palo Alto, CA, US [帕羅奧圖, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 叢書名 | South Asia in Motion Collection |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Canada. |
| 摘要 | Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit (formerly "untouchable") followers. This, however, is only part of the story. Dust on the Throne reframes discussions about the place of Buddhism in the subcontinent from the early nineteenth century onwards, uncovering the integral, yet unacknowledged, role that Indians played in the making of modern global Buddhism in the century prior to Ambedkar's conversion, and the numerous ways that Buddhism gave powerful shape to modern Indian history. Through an extensive examination of disparate materials held at archives and temples across South Asia, Douglas Ober explores Buddhist religious dynamics in an age of expanding colonial empires, intra-Asian connectivity, and the histories of Buddhism produced by nineteenth and twentieth century Indian thinkers. While Buddhism in contemporary India is often disparaged as being little more than tattered manuscripts and crumbling ruins, this book opens new avenues for understanding its substantial socio-political impact and intellectual legacy. |
| 目次 | Abbreviations Language Matters Introduction-A Dependent Arising 1. The Agony of Memory 2. Dispelling Darkness 3. Banyan Tree Buddhism 4. Brahmanizing Buddhism 5. The Snake and the Mongoose 6. When the Buddha met Marx 7. The Buddha Nation Conclusion-Thus Have I Heard... Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Picture Credits Index |
| ISBN | 9781503635029 (hbc); 9781503635036 (pbc); 9781503635777 (ebook) |
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| 點閱次數 | 32 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.08.13 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.08.16 |
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