Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Introduction, TransBuddhism: Authenticity in the Context of
Transformation .................................................. i
Nalini Bhushan and Abraham Zablocki
Part I Transmission
Chapter 1. Discourse, Authority, Demand: The Politics of
Early English Publications on Buddhism ............. 21
Judith Snodgrass
Chapter 2. Transnational Tulkus: The Globalization of
Tibetan Buddhist Reincarnation ..................... 43
Abraham Zablocki
Chapter 3. Buddhism in American Prisons ....................... 55
Constance Kassor
Chapter 4. Incense at a Funeral: The Rise and Fall of
an American Shingon Temple ......................... 69
Elizabeth Eastman
Part II Translation
Chapter 5. Translation as Transmission and Transformation ..... 89
Jay L. Garfield
Chapter 6. Two Monks and the Mountain Village Ideal .......... 105
Thomas H. Rohlich
Chapter 7. Text, Tradition, Transformation, and
Transmission in Ghost Dog: The Way of the
Samurai ........................................... 119
Mario D'Amato
Chapter 8. Eastern Influences on Western Sport:
Appropriating Buddhism in the G/Name of Golf ...... 135
Jane M. Stangl
Part III Transformation
Chapter 9. Global Exchange: Women in the Transmission
and Transformation of Buddhism ..................... 151
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Chapter 10. Toward an Anatomy of Mourning: Discipline,
Devotion, and Liberation in a Freudian-Buddhist
Framework .......................................... 167
Nalini Bhushan
Chapter 11. Translating Modernity: Buddhist Response to
the Thai Environmental Crisis ...................... 183
Susan M. Darlington
Chapter 12. The Transcendentalist Ghost in EcoBuddhism ......... 209
Mark L. Blum
References ..................................................... 239
List of Contributors ........................................... 253
Note on the Images ............................................. 255
Index .......................................................... 257
All artwork, including the cover image New Growth Tapestry
and the images of oldest Vietnamese and American trees, of
Thai ordained trees, and of environmental monks in Chapter 11,
by Meridel Rubenstein.
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