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DESCRIPTION:This talk will present portions of Lina Verchery’s current book
  project\,?Buddhism for the?More Than?Human Realm: Rebirth\, Ethics\, and 
 the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association.\n\nFor several decades\, scholarshi
 p on modern Buddhism has focussed almost exclusively on Humanistic Buddhis
 m: a modernist movement spearheaded by several twentieth-century reformers
  who promoted “Buddhism for the human realm” (renjian fojiao?人間佛教). Agains
 t this movement’s this-worldly\, presentist\, and humanistic focus\, conse
 rvative Buddhist communities — especially those espousing literalist under
 standings of karma and rebirth — have been dismissed as superstitious\, un
 -scientific\, and un-modern.?\n\nBuddhism for the?More Than?Human Realm?dr
 aws on over twelve years of multi-sited ethnographic research with one suc
 h traditionalist Buddhist organization: the Dharma Realm Buddhist Associat
 ion (DRBA\,?Fajie Fojiao Zonghui?法界佛教總會)\, a monastic order active in Taiw
 an\, Hong Kong\, Malaysia\, Australia\, the United States\, and Canada. It
  argues that their?literalist\,?non-modernist\, and decidedly?non-humanist
 ic cosmology opens alternative horizons of moral engagement with the more-
 than-human world and challenges how we think about “modern” Buddhism itsel
 f. In contrast to?the anthropocentric focus of Humanistic Buddhism\, which
  can undermine the multi-species fungibility at the heart of the Buddha’s 
 teachings on karma and rebirth\, the book argues for the renewed salience 
 of the DRBA’s literalist cosmology in light of the current environmental c
 risis\, while highlighting the significance of so-called “premodern” epist
 emes for current innovations in the Environmental Humanities and “post-mod
 ern” critical theory.\n
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LOCATION:Senior Common Room\, Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7
 \, 3520 rue University
SUMMARY:Buddhism for the (More Than) Human Realm: Tradition\, Modernity\, a
 nd Transnational Chinese Buddhism
URL:/eas/channels/event/buddhism-more-human-realm-trad
 ition-modernity-and-transnational-chinese-buddhism-360984
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