Andrew S Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4629082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew S Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of St. Scholastica |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0738-9018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Devotion in Ambivalence, Diaspora in Situ
This article discuss the essays of Baimanazhen (Tib. པདྨ་ལྷ་མཛེས། , Chn. 白玛娜珍, b. 1967), a celebrated Tibetan author who writes exclusively in Chinese. We read Baimanazhen’s works not simply as polemics against or mockeries of Buddhism or Tibetan culture, nor as a total acceptance of her Tibetan upbringing. Rather, as an exophonic Tibetan writer, her attitude toward Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism reveals an ambivalence that stays true to the unique e…
Dekyi, Who Left Home
“Dekyi, Who Left Home” relates the friendship between the Tibetan writer Baimanazhen and the Buddhist nun Dekyi, who lives in a small nunnery outside Lhasa. Their relationship and understanding of Buddhism undergo a number of challenges and breakthroughs as they negotiate the tension between traditional Tibetan culture and the transformations of modern life
Theoretical and Practical Reflections on Methodological Ludism
The field of religious studies has reached a just consensus that the discipline once known as “comparative religion” was epistemically and ethically problematic. Yet, comparison remains the unacknowledged architect of the theoretical categories by which scholars delimit their more local case studies. The authors suggest scholars would perform these implicit comparisons more responsibly by externalizing and explicitly theorizing them, and that “co…
Le Ton beau de Xuanzang
This essay shows how one professor teaching “Introduction to Buddhism” sought to counteract his students' view that Chinese and Tibetan forms of Buddhism represented a deviation from a “pure” Indian Buddhism rather than worthwhile forms of creativity and religiosity in themselves. A simple comparative assignment that asked a group of primarily monolingual students from Minnesota to translate a 500‐year‐old French ditty into English helped illustr…
The Invention of Professional Quakerism
This article describes the emergence of ‘professional Quakers’, or Friends who emerged as leaders of Quaker institutions based on secular credentials. In the early twentieth century, many American Quaker institutions, especially Quaker colleges, large yearly meetings, and Quaker organisations like the American Friends Service Committee, began hiring full-time staff and assembling boards that resembled the structures of corporations and other secu…
Toward a Chinese Buddhist Modernism
Larung Gar is often hailed by scholars and practitioners alike as a last bastion of authentic Buddhist practice by ethnic Tibetans within the PRC . And yet, Larung is visited every year by tens of thousands of Han pilgrims and houses hundreds of Han monastics who have taken vows in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The author draws on a variety of oral and written sources to show that the Han inundation of Larung was not a byproduct of happenstance…
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The Invention of Professional Quakerism
This article describes the emergence of ‘professional Quakers’, or Friends who emerged as leaders of Quaker institutions based on secular credentials. In the early twentieth century, many American Quaker institutions, especially Quaker colleges, large yearly meetings, and Quaker organisations like the American Friends Service Committee, began hiring full-time staff and assembling boards that resembled the structures of corporations and other secu…
Toward a Chinese Buddhist Modernism
Larung Gar is often hailed by scholars and practitioners alike as a last bastion of authentic Buddhist practice by ethnic Tibetans within the PRC . And yet, Larung is visited every year by tens of thousands of Han pilgrims and houses hundreds of Han monastics who have taken vows in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The author draws on a variety of oral and written sources to show that the Han inundation of Larung was not a byproduct of happenstance…
Le Ton beau de Xuanzang
This essay shows how one professor teaching “Introduction to Buddhism” sought to counteract his students' view that Chinese and Tibetan forms of Buddhism represented a deviation from a “pure” Indian Buddhism rather than worthwhile forms of creativity and religiosity in themselves. A simple comparative assignment that asked a group of primarily monolingual students from Minnesota to translate a 500‐year‐old French ditty into English helped illustr…
Theoretical and Practical Reflections on Methodological Ludism
The field of religious studies has reached a just consensus that the discipline once known as “comparative religion” was epistemically and ethically problematic. Yet, comparison remains the unacknowledged architect of the theoretical categories by which scholars delimit their more local case studies. The authors suggest scholars would perform these implicit comparisons more responsibly by externalizing and explicitly theorizing them, and that “co…
Devotion in Ambivalence, Diaspora in Situ
This article discuss the essays of Baimanazhen (Tib. པདྨ་ལྷ་མཛེས། , Chn. 白玛娜珍, b. 1967), a celebrated Tibetan author who writes exclusively in Chinese. We read Baimanazhen’s works not simply as polemics against or mockeries of Buddhism or Tibetan culture, nor as a total acceptance of her Tibetan upbringing. Rather, as an exophonic Tibetan writer, her attitude toward Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism reveals an ambivalence that stays true to the unique e…
Dekyi, Who Left Home
“Dekyi, Who Left Home” relates the friendship between the Tibetan writer Baimanazhen and the Buddhist nun Dekyi, who lives in a small nunnery outside Lhasa. Their relationship and understanding of Buddhism undergo a number of challenges and breakthroughs as they negotiate the tension between traditional Tibetan culture and the transformations of modern life
Buddhism (4 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works)