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Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravāda Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravāda communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings.

Buddhism --- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) --- Theravāda --- Social aspects --- History --- Theravāda Buddhism --- Monastic and religious life (Lamaism) --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Religious life --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Pali Buddhism --- Southern Buddhism --- Buddhist sects --- Hinayana Buddhism --- Buddhism - Social aspects - Asia, Southeastern. --- Buddhism - Social aspects - South Asia. --- Theravāda - Buddhism - History - 20th century. --- Theravada Buddhism

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The first authoritative volume on the totality of Buddhism in the West, Westward Dharma establishes a comparative and theoretical perspective for considering the amazing variety of Buddhist traditions, schools, centers, and teachers that have developed outside of Asia. Leading scholars from North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia explore the plurality and heterogeneity of traditions and practices that are characteristic of Buddhism in the West. This recent, dramatic growth in Western Buddhism is accompanied by an expansion of topics and issues of Buddhist concern. The contributors to this volume treat such topics as the broadening spirit of egalitarianism; the increasing emphasis on the psychological, as opposed to the purely religious, nature of practice; scandals within Buddhist movements; the erosion of the distinction between professional and lay Buddhists; Buddhist settlement in Israel; the history of Buddhism in internment camps; repackaging Zen for the West; and women's dharma in the West. The interconnections of historical and theoretical approaches in the volume make it a rich, multi-layered resource.

Globalization --- Buddhism --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- History --- Missions --- History. --- Buddhism - Missions - History --- Buddhism - History - 20th century --- Globalization - Religious aspects - Buddhism --- asia. --- australia. --- buddhism scholars. --- buddhism. --- buddhist practices. --- buddhist studies. --- buddhist teachings. --- buddhist traditions. --- comparative religions. --- dharma. --- diaspora. --- egalitarianism. --- ethics. --- europe. --- global religion. --- history of buddhism. --- israel. --- north america. --- psychology. --- religious philosophy. --- religious scholars. --- south africa. --- theoretical approach. --- theoretical perspective. --- western buddhists. --- western philosophy. --- western thought. --- western world. --- zen.