Methods in Buddhist Studies

Notes On Contributors Preface, Judith Berling (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA) Introduction: On Maps, Elephants, and Buddhists, Scott A. Mitchell (Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA) Part 1: Historical Studies 1. When Food Becomes Trespass: Buddhism and the Kami in Local Economies, Lisa Grumbach (Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan and the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA) 2. Making the Modern Priest: The Otani Denomination’s Proto-University and Debates about Clerical Education in the Early Meiji Period, Victoria R. Montrose (University of Southern California, USA) 3. Taking the Vajrayana to Sukhavati, Aaron P. Proffitt (, University at Albany-SUNY, USA) Part 2: Textual Studies 4. Yijing’s Sciptural Text about Impermanence (T. 801), Charles Willemen (International Buddhist College, Thailand) 5. Dualistic and Bifunctional Spirits: A Translation of the Oni no Shikogusa, Takuya Hino (Komazawa University, Japan) 6. A Note Concerning Contemplation of the Marks of the Buddha, Charles D. Orzech (Colby College, Maine, USA) Part 3: Ethnographic Studies 7. Buddhism, Consumerism, and the Chinese Millennial, Courtney Bruntz (Doane University, USA) 8. Describing the (Nonexistent?) Elephant: Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Asian American Buddhists, Chenxing Han (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA) Part 4: Theoretical Concerns 9. Is a Dazang jing a Canon? On the Nature of Chinese Buddhist Textual Anthologies, Charles B. Jones (University of America, Washington, USA) 10. Our Buddhadharma, Our Buddhist Dharma, Franz Metcalf (California State University, USA) 11. On Authenticity: Scholarship, the Insight Movement, and White Authority, Natalie Fisk Quli (Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA Notes Bibliography Index