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The Making of Buddhist Modernism

Hardcover • 2008

The Making of Buddhist Modernism

By DAVID K. ALLISON

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About the book

In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses - sometimes trivial, often profound -to some of the most important c...Show more

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9780195183276

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2008

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The Making of Buddhist Modernism

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