The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

GO The Future of Reason, Science and Faith


Author: J. Andrew Kirk
Type: eBook
Language: English
Released: 2007
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Page Count: 265
Format: pdf
ISBN-10: 0754658821
ISBN-13: 9780754658825
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Description:
This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organizations currently active on the British religious landscape: the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC). The key contributions of recent scholarship are evaluated and organized thematically to provide a framework for analysis, and the history and current landscape of contemporary Tibetan and Zen Buddhist practice in Britain are also mapped out. A number of patterns and processes identified elsewhere are exemplified, although certain assumptions made about the nature of 'British Buddhism' are subjected to critical scrutiny and challenged.