Publication details
Protestantský buddhismus
| Title in English | Protestant Buddhism |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia Orientalia Slovaka |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | protestant buddhism; orientalism; engaged buddhism; vipasana meditation |
| Description | The concept of Protestant Buddhism was introduced into the academic study of religions by Gananath Obeysekere and Richard Gombrich in their analysis of modernization of Theravada in Sri Lanka. They defined Protestant Buddhism as a reform religious movement opposed both to the activities of Christian missions and to British colonial government. This movement has adopted certain characteristics of Protestantism, first of all laicization, the refusal of the mediating role of monks and the shift to individual responsibility for one's own salvation. The new movement has strived to reform current degraded Buddhism and bring it to the conditions of modern Western rationality, effectiveness and prosperity. The study shows certain features of Protestant Buddhism within two Buddhist schools which are popular in the West: Vipassana Movement and Engaged Buddhism. At the same time the study points out to certain elements of orientalism and of Western intellectual stereotypes in Protestant Buddhism. |
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