...Ananda Abeysekara Abstract Critiques of the concept of “Protestant Buddhism” claim to tell a different story about the relation between religion and modernity (“Protestantism”) in South Asia. They seek to reconstruct the temporal relation between the past and the present, contesting postcolonial...

... enough to have established the equivalent of a university. Later Apollonius visited a temple of Zoroaster there, bearing witness to a Persian presence. Buddhism had been established a bit further up the valley. The site, which bears a Sanskrit name, still holds the site of Muslim...

... Axial Age, approximately 700– 200 bce, when most of the world’s major religious and ethical systems emerged independently: foun- dational texts of Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Platonism, Confucianism, and Buddhism all date to this period.32 In many ac- counts this emergence...

... of untrodden ways, unfre- quented lanes, and paths not taken.39 Hegel’s plaintive, transient “self-centered” unseen world resembles “A = A,” or auto-affecting, “feminine,” self-negating Buddhism, the religion Hegel called “be- ing within self.”40 “A = A” is the beautiful soul (PS, 395, 398–99), pure...

... Prinzip mentioned in the text. As for Kozawa, he expounded in an article the thesis that in Japanese society, because of the strong Weber, Maeda, Minatomichi: On The Legend of Freud 175 influence Buddhism has had on it, the complex originating in the mother’s...

...- ing it, along with eyes and fi ngers, into the orbit of queerness. For that, of course, for Sedgwick, is the orbit that (more strenuously than the Buddhism to which she also subscribes) carries the poten- tial to unravel social dualisms. Queer, Sedgwick reminds us in an earlier text, “means...

... tolerance in China, which was of course an error, but it’s also true that China has never known this kind of exclusiveness—dogma—that is at- tached to the thought of God. If there are proceedings against Buddhism, notably in the ninth century, these were for political reasons, not for reasons...

... native to the Americas, Asia, and Africa but present possibly even in pre-Chris- tian “pagan” and nondominant European versions of subjectivity. For me, this concept comes through Buddhism and the Maya con- cept of In’Laketch, tú eres mi otro yo, you are my other self...

... Buddhism alike. This is our world. A world that we today call “global”—as if there were a choice, a choice to inhabit a planet that was not a globe. As if we could reject the world in its spherical, all-pervading, mutual co-arising. As if there might be an option to reject the globe and to become, again...

... family, rare for Japan. In a northern regional city, my father grew up as the oldest son of my grandmother’s house, which adamantly followed the Jodo sect of Buddhism. For him, to be Christian was to reject the na- tivist society. However, he was a mama’s boy and an autocratic husband...