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The Huayan scholar-monk Fazang (643-712) formulated, with the
‘Ten Subtle and Unimpeded Dharma-Gates’ of Pratītyasamutpāda,
or ‘Ten Dharma-Gates,’ a series of cognitive and affective
paradigms that describe how the Enlightenment-Mind apprehends
reality. These patterns, in turn, model the way Buddhists
understand, explain, configure, reflection, imagine, and engage the
world. The basis for these paradigms is the truth and experience of
pratītyasamutpāda, ‘dependent-co-arising,’ which the Buddha
intuited. This book traces the origins and unfolding of the insight
of an interdependent and multi-centered reality, which Fazang
crystallizes with the ‘Ten Dharma-Gates,’ and employs that
insight to reflect on modern ethical and moral concerns, curriculum
design, and aesthetics. Examination of the presuppositions of
Buddhist thought—distinguishing it from the certainty of
absolute-centered ideologies that subsume all meaning and
values—should be of interest to academics. Aestheticians,
artists, and Buddhist devotees will appreciate the intuitive
sources of Buddhism. This book opens new vistas for Buddhist
studies.
A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this
two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian
American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience. Despite
constituting a fairly small proportion of the U.S.
population-roughly 5 percent-Asian Americans are a widely diverse
group with equally heterogeneous religious beliefs and traditions.
This encyclopedia provides a single source for authoritative
information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander religious
experience, addressing South Asian Americans, such as Indian
Americans and Pakistani Americans; East Asian Americans, including
Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans; and
Southeast Asian Americans, whose ethnicities include Filipino
Americans, Thai Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. Pacific
Islanders include Hawaiians, Samoans, Marshallese, Tongan, and
Chamorro. The coverage includes not only traditional eastern belief
systems and traditions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism
as well as Micronesian and Polynesian religious traditions in the
United States, but also the culture and religious rituals of Asian
American Christians. Covers both common motifs in Asian American
religious culture, such as Chinese New Year festivals and mortuary
rituals, as well as many newly established faith traditions
Contains entries on rarely addressed topics within Asian American
religion, such as Hezhen Shamanism
The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900
to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over
time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental
U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba,
Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the islands of Micronesia. The essays
in this volume commemorate these diasporic experiences within the
geopolitical context of East Asia. Using primary sources and oral
history, individual contributors examine how Okinawan identity was
constructed in the various countries to which. Okinawans migrated,
and how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese
nation-building project and by globalization. Essays explore the
return to Okinawan sovereignty, or what Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzaburo
called an ""impossible possibility,"" and the role of the Okinawan
labor diaspora in Japan's imperial expansion into the Philippines
and Micronesia.
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