Methods in Buddhist Studies

Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, USA. He is the author of Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts (Bloomsbury, 2016). Natalie Fisk Quli is Research Fellow and Senior Editor of the Pacific World Journal at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, USA. She is co-editor of Buddhism Beyond Borders: New Perspectives on Buddhism in the United States (2015).

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