British Buddhism
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Books (9)
Canonical Works (1)
Readings (10)
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“Buddhism” and “Ireland” were almost impossible to hold together. What we find instead are defectors from the imperial service class, “going native” in Japan, Ceylon or Ladakh and stepping outside both their own local culture and imperial arrangements tout court.
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Efforts to import the Theravāda monastic system in a partial manner did not succeed. The system eventually had to be swallowed whole, though rendered more palatable by specific innovations.
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Buddhism remains largely invisible in the urban and suburban landscape of London, adapting buildings that are already in place, with little material impact on the built environment, and has thus been less subject to contestation than other religious movements and traditions.
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I explore the specifically British history that informs the association between mindfulness and psychological resilience today. I show that the association between psychological resilience and mindfulness practice is the result of broader historical concerns about the nature of modern society and psychology. Taking a genealogical approach, I argue that changing patterns in British psychology and Buddhism, while framed in universalist registers, are constituted in and constitutive of a broader historical and political context.
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They scrutinised their actions to ensure they positioned themselves ethically in their everyday lives, particularly regarding sexuality. This reflexivity had a positive impact at the individual level, enabling them to construct a coherent biographical narrative. Yet, analysing this through the sociological lens of advantage and disadvantage, we posit that these accomplishments were facilitated by certain classed privileges.
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Lost Horizon (1933) can be understood historically in relation to contemporary Western ideas about Buddhism, and in response to the sense of historical crisis of Western modernity. This paper also shows that elements of a more genuine Buddhism are extracted from orientalist materials and deployed by Hilton in ways that make the novel a carrier of quasi-Buddhist ideas.
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We conducted in-depth narrative interviews with 30 male meditators in London, United Kingdom, to explore the appeal Buddhism held for them.
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