Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain: Transplantation, Development and Adaptation

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Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Illustrations PART ONE: REVIEW AND CONTEXTUALISATION 1. Buddhism in Britain: Review and Contextualisation: Introduction Buddhism and British Culture The Impact of Buddhism on British Culture The Appeal of Buddhism The Impact of British Culture on Buddhism The Transplantation Process Material Conditions Trans-Cultural Processes The Nature of the Incoming Tradition Policies and Patterns of Adaptation Policies and Patterns The Question of Authenticity Contextualising the NKT and OBC The British Buddhist Context Tibetan Buddhism in Britain Zen Buddhism in Britain PART TWO: THE NEW KADAMPA TRADITION 2. The New Kadampa Tradition: Background and Cross-Cultural Context: Introduction: Contextualising the NKT Divisions within the Gelug Tradition The Dorje Shugden Controversy 3. The Emergence of the NKT in Britain: Introduction Gelug Buddhism in the West: The FPMT Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Problems at the Priory Geshe Kelsang's Network Takes Shape Dorje Shugden Reliance in Geshe Kelsang's Centres The Crystalisation of the New Kadampa Tradition The Creation and Announcement of the NKT 4. The Identity of the NKT: Introduction History and Identity Construction in the NKT The NKT's Organisational Structure Purity and Impurity Critique of Contemporary Buddhist Practice NKT Exclusivism The Missionary Imperative Engagement and Dialogue Adaptation within the NKT Dorje Shugden Reliance Crisis and Response: The Dorje Shugden Affair A Rejection of Modernity? The FPMT Re-visited PART THREE: THE ORDER OF BUDDHIST CONTEMPLATIVES 5. The Order of Buddhist Contemplatives: Background and Early Development: Introduction: Contextualising the OBC The Emergence of the Zen Mission Society The Ideological Development of the ZMS, 1962-1976 Aspects of Kennett's Zen Buddhism and Western Culture Buddhism and Gender The Adaptation of Zen for the West A Protestant Form of Zen? Religious Innovation and Charisma 6. The Lotus Blossom Period, 1976-1983: Introduction Zen Buddhism and Meditative Experience Kennett's Religious Experience: Preliminary Considerations The Phenomenology of Kennett's Experience A Contextual Explanation Developments and Innovations Assimilation and Rejection Strategies and Arguments Text and Context in the OBC: The Wild, White Goose The Storm Weathered 7. The Later Period: Routinisation and Consolidation: The Routinising Impulse The Structure and Identity of the OBC Kennett's Later Teachings Assimilation and Stability in the Later Period Growth and Consolidation in Britain The OBC and the British Buddhist Context PART FOUR: EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION 8. Epilogue and Conclusion: Recent Developments in the NKT Recent Developments in the OBC Buddhism and British Culture The Transplantation Process Policies and Patterns of Adaptation Constructing History and Resolving Conflict Conclusion Bibliography

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