Kate Crosby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4688666 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kate Crosby |
| NOMBRES | Kate |
| APELLIDO | Crosby |
| FIRMA | CROSBY K |
| AFILIACIONES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8547-3437 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Simas
Reducing Suffering During Conflict
This article stems from a project launched by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2017 to examine the degree to which Buddhism might complement or enhance international humanitarian law (IHL), also known as ‘the law of war’ or ‘the law of armed conflict’. Given that Buddhist teachings discourage violence, scholarship has critiqued Buddhists’ involvement in armed conflict rather than considered how Buddhism might contribute to r…
Terms of Engagement
Despite the remarkable rise in publications on the subject of meditation practices derived from Theravada Buddhism, the representation of Theravada meditation itself, in all its rich diversity, has remained narrow. The burgeoning literature on meditation and mindfulness has focused on a limited range of practices, with much of Theravada’s historical and current diversity of practice, particularly that within Asia, ignored.1 Moreover, while there …
Abhidhamma and Nimitta in Eighteenth-Century Meditation Manuscripts From Sri Lanka
The Nevill Collection of manuscripts from Sri Lanka housed in the British Library includes seventeen texts, in eleven manuscripts, related to a type of Theravada Buddhist meditation referred to here as boran kammaṭṭhāna, ‘the old meditation method.’ This article offers the first detailed survey of these texts and finds a close correlation between the practices they advocate and commentarial Abhidhamma, a surprising finding given the modern reputa…
Afterword – Ways Forward
The Cavendish banana has already been evoked as an analogy for therapeutic mindfulness, alluding to the consequences of restricting commercial production to this single variety.1 One might extend t
Heresy and Monastic Malpractice in the Buddhist Court Cases (Vinicchaya) of Modern Burma (Myanmar)
Over the past four decades, Buddhists in Burma, mainly monks, have been brought before Sangha courts charged with heresy, adhamma, and malpractice, avinaya, under the jurisdiction of the State Sanghamahanayaka Committee. This body, established under General Ne Win in 1980, oversees the regulation and conduct of the Sangha. The religious courts that try these cases have the backing of state law enforcement agencies: failure to comply with their ju…
Theravāda Buddhist Encounters with Modernity
The acultural understanding of modernity has its roots in ideas of Progress promulgated as part of the European colonial narrative of the nineteenth century. The success of Europe’s military campaigns in Asia informed Social Darwinism, and led to an assumption that Europe’s technologies surpassed those of Asia in nonmilitary fields also. As a result, in the colonial period, a range of technologies found in Asia were ignored, marginalized or activ…
Buddhism in America
The first edition of Richard Seager's Buddhism in America, published in 1999, received substantial praise for its range of coverage and readability, qualities maintained in this new edition. The or
Ordination and Disrobing in Theravada Buddhism
Much has been written about motivations for becoming a monk in Theravada societies. This article examines the other end of the process, the monk’s ‘re-entering’ society. It begins by looking at the motives for becoming a monk, and the difference between the lifelong commitment typical of Sri Lanka and the temporary ordination typical of Southeast Asian countries. It then looks at motives for disrobing, which may be a wish to enjoy lay life, a wis…
Theravada Buddhism ‐ Continuity, Diversity and Identity
Theravada Buddhism provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the history, teachings, and current practice of an often misunderstood form of one of the world’s oldest religious traditions. Explores Theravada Buddhism’s origins, evolution, teachings, and practices Considers the practice of Theravada beyond Sri Lanka and Thailand, by exploring a wealth of material from countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam Reveals its rich an…
Richard Hughes Seager. Buddhism in America
The Sutta on Understanding Death in the Transmission of Borān Meditation From Siam to the Kandyan Court
Popularising Buddhism
Poetic Dhamma and the Zare
In the Theravada Buddhism of the Shan peoples of northern Burma and Thailand, the main medium for the transmission of complex teachings is an elaborate form of poetry. The scholars who preserve and perform the readings of such teachings are called zare. Mostly they are laymen, although some are women and a few are monks. This article examines how the zare acquire their extraordinary erudition, the challenges confronting the tradition in the face …
Streams of the salween
Changing the landscape of Theravada studies
A Philological Approach to Buddhism
A Philological Approach to Buddhism: The Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Lectures 1994, K.R. Norman, 2nd edn (Lancaster: Pali Text Society, 2006), pp. xx+250, £23. ISBN: 0860134210
Kamma, social collapse or geophysics? Interpretations of suffering among Sri Lankan Buddhists in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami
In the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami, those affected struggled to come to terms with the scale of the disaster. This article documents the initial response in religious terms to the calamity by Buddhists in Sri Lanka. It looks at the interpretations they proposed for the causes of such suffering.1 1. My initial findings from this fieldwork were presented in the 'Understanding Buddhism' public lecture series sponsored by Asia House…
Only If You Let Go Of That Tree’
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Tantric Theravāda
(2000). Tantric Theravāda: A bibliographic essay on the writings of Francois Bizot and others on the yogāvacara Tradition. Contemporary Buddhism: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 141-198
Uddis and Ācikh
History versus Modern Myth
Heresy and Monastic Malpractice in the Buddhist Court Cases (Vinicchaya) of Modern Burma (Myanmar)
Over the past four decades, Buddhists in Burma, mainly monks, have been brought before Sangha courts charged with heresy, adhamma, and malpractice, avinaya, under the jurisdiction of the State Sanghamahanayaka Committee. This body, established under General Ne Win in 1980, oversees the regulation and conduct of the Sangha. The religious courts that try these cases have the backing of state law enforcement agencies: failure to comply with their ju…
Theravada Buddhism ‐ Continuity, Diversity and Identity
Theravada Buddhism provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the history, teachings, and current practice of an often misunderstood form of one of the world’s oldest religious traditions. Explores Theravada Buddhism’s origins, evolution, teachings, and practices Considers the practice of Theravada beyond Sri Lanka and Thailand, by exploring a wealth of material from countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam Reveals its rich an…
Theravāda Buddhist Encounters with Modernity
The acultural understanding of modernity has its roots in ideas of Progress promulgated as part of the European colonial narrative of the nineteenth century. The success of Europe’s military campaigns in Asia informed Social Darwinism, and led to an assumption that Europe’s technologies surpassed those of Asia in nonmilitary fields also. As a result, in the colonial period, a range of technologies found in Asia were ignored, marginalized or activ…
History versus Modern Myth
Simas
Kamma, social collapse or geophysics? Interpretations of suffering among Sri Lankan Buddhists in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami
In the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami, those affected struggled to come to terms with the scale of the disaster. This article documents the initial response in religious terms to the calamity by Buddhists in Sri Lanka. It looks at the interpretations they proposed for the causes of such suffering.1 1. My initial findings from this fieldwork were presented in the 'Understanding Buddhism' public lecture series sponsored by Asia House…
Ordination and Disrobing in Theravada Buddhism
Much has been written about motivations for becoming a monk in Theravada societies. This article examines the other end of the process, the monk’s ‘re-entering’ society. It begins by looking at the motives for becoming a monk, and the difference between the lifelong commitment typical of Sri Lanka and the temporary ordination typical of Southeast Asian countries. It then looks at motives for disrobing, which may be a wish to enjoy lay life, a wis…
The Sutta on Understanding Death in the Transmission of Borān Meditation From Siam to the Kandyan Court
Poetic Dhamma and the Zare
In the Theravada Buddhism of the Shan peoples of northern Burma and Thailand, the main medium for the transmission of complex teachings is an elaborate form of poetry. The scholars who preserve and perform the readings of such teachings are called zare. Mostly they are laymen, although some are women and a few are monks. This article examines how the zare acquire their extraordinary erudition, the challenges confronting the tradition in the face …
Only If You Let Go Of That Tree’
.
Uddis and Ācikh
History versus Modern Myth
Tantric Theravāda
(2000). Tantric Theravāda: A bibliographic essay on the writings of Francois Bizot and others on the yogāvacara Tradition. Contemporary Buddhism: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 141-198
Uddis and Ācikh
Only If You Let Go Of That Tree’
.
Changing the landscape of Theravada studies
A Philological Approach to Buddhism
A Philological Approach to Buddhism: The Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Lectures 1994, K.R. Norman, 2nd edn (Lancaster: Pali Text Society, 2006), pp. xx+250, £23. ISBN: 0860134210
Kamma, social collapse or geophysics? Interpretations of suffering among Sri Lankan Buddhists in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami
In the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami, those affected struggled to come to terms with the scale of the disaster. This article documents the initial response in religious terms to the calamity by Buddhists in Sri Lanka. It looks at the interpretations they proposed for the causes of such suffering.1 1. My initial findings from this fieldwork were presented in the 'Understanding Buddhism' public lecture series sponsored by Asia House…
Streams of the salween
Popularising Buddhism
Poetic Dhamma and the Zare
In the Theravada Buddhism of the Shan peoples of northern Burma and Thailand, the main medium for the transmission of complex teachings is an elaborate form of poetry. The scholars who preserve and perform the readings of such teachings are called zare. Mostly they are laymen, although some are women and a few are monks. This article examines how the zare acquire their extraordinary erudition, the challenges confronting the tradition in the face …
Richard Hughes Seager. Buddhism in America
The Sutta on Understanding Death in the Transmission of Borān Meditation From Siam to the Kandyan Court
Theravada Buddhism ‐ Continuity, Diversity and Identity
Theravada Buddhism provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the history, teachings, and current practice of an often misunderstood form of one of the world’s oldest religious traditions. Explores Theravada Buddhism’s origins, evolution, teachings, and practices Considers the practice of Theravada beyond Sri Lanka and Thailand, by exploring a wealth of material from countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam Reveals its rich an…
Buddhism in America
The first edition of Richard Seager's Buddhism in America, published in 1999, received substantial praise for its range of coverage and readability, qualities maintained in this new edition. The or
Ordination and Disrobing in Theravada Buddhism
Much has been written about motivations for becoming a monk in Theravada societies. This article examines the other end of the process, the monk’s ‘re-entering’ society. It begins by looking at the motives for becoming a monk, and the difference between the lifelong commitment typical of Sri Lanka and the temporary ordination typical of Southeast Asian countries. It then looks at motives for disrobing, which may be a wish to enjoy lay life, a wis…
Heresy and Monastic Malpractice in the Buddhist Court Cases (Vinicchaya) of Modern Burma (Myanmar)
Over the past four decades, Buddhists in Burma, mainly monks, have been brought before Sangha courts charged with heresy, adhamma, and malpractice, avinaya, under the jurisdiction of the State Sanghamahanayaka Committee. This body, established under General Ne Win in 1980, oversees the regulation and conduct of the Sangha. The religious courts that try these cases have the backing of state law enforcement agencies: failure to comply with their ju…
Theravāda Buddhist Encounters with Modernity
The acultural understanding of modernity has its roots in ideas of Progress promulgated as part of the European colonial narrative of the nineteenth century. The success of Europe’s military campaigns in Asia informed Social Darwinism, and led to an assumption that Europe’s technologies surpassed those of Asia in nonmilitary fields also. As a result, in the colonial period, a range of technologies found in Asia were ignored, marginalized or activ…
Terms of Engagement
Despite the remarkable rise in publications on the subject of meditation practices derived from Theravada Buddhism, the representation of Theravada meditation itself, in all its rich diversity, has remained narrow. The burgeoning literature on meditation and mindfulness has focused on a limited range of practices, with much of Theravada’s historical and current diversity of practice, particularly that within Asia, ignored.1 Moreover, while there …
Abhidhamma and Nimitta in Eighteenth-Century Meditation Manuscripts From Sri Lanka
The Nevill Collection of manuscripts from Sri Lanka housed in the British Library includes seventeen texts, in eleven manuscripts, related to a type of Theravada Buddhist meditation referred to here as boran kammaṭṭhāna, ‘the old meditation method.’ This article offers the first detailed survey of these texts and finds a close correlation between the practices they advocate and commentarial Abhidhamma, a surprising finding given the modern reputa…
Afterword – Ways Forward
The Cavendish banana has already been evoked as an analogy for therapeutic mindfulness, alluding to the consequences of restricting commercial production to this single variety.1 One might extend t
Reducing Suffering During Conflict
This article stems from a project launched by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2017 to examine the degree to which Buddhism might complement or enhance international humanitarian law (IHL), also known as ‘the law of war’ or ‘the law of armed conflict’. Given that Buddhist teachings discourage violence, scholarship has critiqued Buddhists’ involvement in armed conflict rather than considered how Buddhism might contribute to r…
Simas
Buddhism (18 obras) · Philosophy (15 obras) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (14 obras) · Theology (12 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (10 obras) · History (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras)