Kevin Trainor - The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Trainor, Kevin, editor. | Arai, Paula Kane Robinson, editor.

Title: The Oxford handbook of Buddhist practice / Paula Arai and Kevin Trainor.

Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2022. |

Series: Oxford handbooks series | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021051385 | ISBN 9780190632922 (hardback) |

ISBN 9780190632939 (UPDF) | ISBN 9780190632946 (epub) | ISBN 9780190632953 (Digital-Online)

Subjects: LCSH: Buddhism. | Religious lifeBuddhism. |

BuddhismDoctrines. | Spiritual lifeBuddhism.

Classification: LCC BQ4950 .O94 2022 | DDC 294.3/4dc23/eng/20220223

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021051385

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190632922.001.0001

Paula Arai and Kevin Trainor

Part I.

Miranda Shaw

Nathan McGovern

Paula Arai and Eun-su Cho

Todd Lewis

Scott Mitchell

Inken Prohl

Part II.

John S. Strong

Susan L. Huntington

Natalie Gummer

Abhishek Singh Amar

Julia Shaw

Part III.

Sienna R. Craig

Ian Reader

Miranda Shaw

Margaret Gouin

Part IV.

Mahinda Deegalle

Charles B. Jones

Jeff Shore

Part V.

Jeffrey Samuels

Richard K. Payne

Stephen Jenkins

Hiroko Kawanami

Lori Meeks

Vesna A. Wallace

Charles Korin Pokorny

Linda Ho Pech

Jonathan S. Walters

Lisa Grumbach

Part VII.

Thomas Borchert

Susan M. Darlington

Jasmine Syedullah

Jitsujo T. Gauthier

Elizabeth J. Harris

Louise Connelly

John D. Dunne

Erik Braun

Abhishek Singh Amar is an Associate Professor in Asian Studies at Hamilton College, New York. He received his PhD from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He specializes in the archaeological history of Buddhism in premodern India. He has held fellowships in UK, Germany, US, and India. He has published a coauthored book, Archaeological Gazetteer of Gaya District (KPJRI, 2017), a co-edited volume, Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site: Bodhgaya Jataka (Routledge, 2012), and several articles on Buddhist and Hindu material culture. He also directs a digital Humanities project, Sacred Centers in India, which developed a database of temples and sculptures of Hindu Gaya, and is currently developing a database of Indian Buddhist Monasteries.

Paula Arai received her PhD in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University, specializing in Japanese St Zen. She trained at Aichi Senmon Nisd under the tutelage of Aoyama Shund Rshi. She is author of Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart SutraThe Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo (Shambhala Publications, 2019), Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Womens Rituals (University of Hawaii Press, 2011), and Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns (Oxford University Press, 1999). Her research has received a range of support, including from Fulbright, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Academy of Religion, the Reischauer Institute, the Mellon Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, and Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars. She has curated exhibits of Iwasakis Heart Sutra paintings at the Museum of Art at Louisiana State University, the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, and the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach Florida. Arai is currently a Professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India.

Thomas Borchert is Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont, and is the author of Educating Monks: Minority Religion on Chinas Southwest Border (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), and the editor of Theravada Buddhism in Colonial Contexts (Routledge, 2018). His research interests focus on the intersection of monasticism, nationalism, and citizenship in Thailand, China, and Singapore.

Erik Braun is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. In addition to various articles, he is the author of The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and co-edited with David McMahan the volume Buddhism, Meditation, and Science (Oxford University Press, 2017). His research focuses on Burmese Buddhism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Pali literature, and globalizing forms of meditative practice. He received his PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard University.

Eun-su Cho is Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National University (SNU). She received her PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of California. Before she joined SNU in 2004, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She has published articles ranging from Indian Abhidharma Buddhism to Korean Buddhist thought and history, including The Uses and Abuses of Wnhyo and the Tong Pulgyo Narrative, Wnhyos Theory of One Mind: A Korean Way of Interpreting Mind and Repentance as a Bodhisattva PracticeWnhyo on Guilt and Moral Responsibility; co-translated (with John Jorgensen) Jikji: The Essential Passages Directly Pointing at the Essence of the Mind; and edited an anthology on Korean Buddhist nuns, Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality (SUNY, 2012). A monograph titled Language and Meaning Buddhist Interpretations of the Buddhas Word in Indian and East Asian Perspective (University of Hawaii Press, 2020).

Louise Connelly is a Teaching Fellow in Digital Education and Convenor of the Human Ethical Review Committee (HERC) at the University of Edinburgh, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK (SFHEA). She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2012, titled Aspects of the Self: An Analysis of Self Reflection, Self Presentation, and the Experiential Self within Selected Buddhist Blogs. Her research interests include internet research and ethics; media, religion, and culture; digital Buddhism; digital material religion; and digital education. Her recent publications include Virtual Buddhism: Online Communities, Sacred Places and Objects, in