Adventures in Siddham Script on the Interwebs

If you were wondering where I’ve been lately, my free time has been used up on a small side project that became an interesting challenge. A couple years ago, I wrote this blog post about the …

Buddhist Contramodernism: Shinnyo-En’s Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity

Shinnyo-en’s founders and their successors envisioned a particular strategy for being Buddhist in modernity, one which aligns with some, but not all, scholarly characterizations of Buddhist modernism. As a result, Shinnyo-en and other lay organizations have largely remained on the margins of Buddhist studies despite their apparent popularity and proliferation. This article offers a new category for theorizing and positioning such organizations as contramodern—connected with, but divergent from mainstream forms of Buddhist modernism.

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