VV.AA. (2023). Buddhist studies in Latin America and Spain (volume I). Jaume Vallverdú & Daniel Millet (Eds.). Tarragona: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili & Fundación Dharma-Gaia, 304 pages.
The first volume of Buddhist Studies in Latin America and Spain was published last December 2023. This collective work, edited by Jaume Vallverdú Vallverdú and Daniel Millet Gil, and co-published by Publications of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Dharma-Gaia Foundation, is a milestone in the study of Buddhism in Spanish. It aims to illuminate recent advances in the field of Buddhist studies in the Spanish-speaking academic environment, promoting, in turn, its development and international projection. This two-volume publication, the product of a fruitful collaboration between Rovira i Virgili University and the Dharma-Gaia Foundation, provides an interdisciplinary view of Buddhism in these contexts. The two volumes explore this tradition from diverse perspectives, including anthropology, sociology, philosophy, Buddhist studies, psychology, art and interreligious dialogue. This variety of approaches offers a broad and diverse overview of the presence of Buddhism in Spanish-speaking societies.
Below you will find the tables of contents of the two volumes:
Buddhist Studies in Latin America and Spain (VOL. I)
Introduction. The situation of Buddhist studies at university and academic level in Latin America and Spain. Daniel Millet Gil and Jaume Vallverdú Vallverdú
Part One: Doctrinal Studies and Buddhist Traditions
The sūtra of the Mahāmāyūrī: synthesis and creativity in Buddhist apotropaic traditions. Roberto E. García Fernández
The Kyoto School and Buddhism. Raquel Bouso García
The three paths of liberation in ancient Tibetan Buddhism and its continuity today. Elias M. Capriles Arias
The Buddha of the middle path. Abraham Velez de Cea
Part Two: Status of Buddhism and Buddhist Studies in Spain and Latin America
The situation of Buddhist studies in Spain: teaching programs. Juan Arnau Navarro, Montse Castellà Olivé, Francisco Díez de Velasco, Ricardo Guerrero Diáñez, Basili Llorca Martínez, Daniel Millet Gil, Agustín Pániker Vilaplana, Aleix Ruiz Falqués, Jaume Vallverdú and Abraham Vélez de Cea.
Buddhist studies in Argentina: origins and current contexts of Dharma transmission. Catón Eduardo Carini and Belén Azarola
Anthropology of Buddhism in Latin America. Present and future of an emerging field of study in Mexico. Ezer Roboam May May
Buddhism in Cuba: historical background, current developments and future challenges. Douglas Calvo Gaínza
Part Three: Anthropological, sociological and psychological studies.
Food practices, commensality and ritual in Argentine Buddhism: an ethnographic study. Cato Eduardo Carini
Symbolisms of transformation in Tantric Buddhism. Jaume Vallverdú Vallverdú
The Buddhist mind. A brief tour through the psychological study of Buddhist practice. Ismael Apud Pelaez
Buddhists, their values and practices, in Spanish-speaking countries. A sociological exploration. José Antonio Rodríguez Díaz
Part Four: Miscellaneous (Buddhism and Ecology, Buddhism and Women)
Ganying and the experience of vegetarianism in Chinese Buddhism. Maria Elvira Rios Peñafiel
Interdependence and virtues: Environmental ethics from Buddhism. Katherine V. Masís-Iverson
"Where do I place myself?": The presence of women in Southern Buddhisms. Belén Azarolae
Buddhist Studies in Latin America and Spain (VOL. II)
Introduction. The situation of Buddhist studies at the university and academic level in Latin America and Spain.Jaume Vallverdú Vallverdú and Daniel Millet Gil
Part One: Doctrinal Studies and Buddhist Traditions
Zen Buddhism in Hagakure. Gustavo Pita Céspedes
The circle of Pagan: Early letters of Theravāda scholasticism in medieval Burma. Aleix Ruiz Falqués
Religious Conversion to Buddhism in Latin America: Initial Motivations for Soka Gakkai Membership in Cuba. Girardo Rodriguez Plasencia
Contributions to the study of the theosophical imaginary in Spain: the denomination and conceptualization of bud((d)h)ism. Francisco Díez de Velasco
Part Two: Situation of Buddhism and Buddhist Studies in Latin America
Traces of institutionalized Buddhism in Latin America. Frank Usarski
Seeds and Sprouts: A Brief Genealogy of Buddhism in Peru. Manuel Ato del Avellanal Carrera
Buddhism in Colombia: origins, practice and diffusion. Daniela Mesa Sánchez
Part Three: Philosophical, literary and psychoanalytical studies.
Buddhism and philosophy: Encounters between Western philosophy and Buddhist philosophy: Nishitani Keiji. Carlos Barbosa Cepeda
The universe that others call the library: an approach to what Borges read about Buddhism. Sonia Betancort Santos
The flying horse to the rescue of Buddhist authors. From the formation of its archetype in Vedic ideology to the (re)adaptation of its fable in medieval Japanese tales. Efrain Villamor Herrero
The elusive phantasm. An essay on the term "meditation" within psychoanalysis. Federico Andino
Part Four: Miscellaneous (Buddhism and women, interreligious and intercultural dialogue, Buddhism and gender).
Women and Buddhism. Montse Castellà Olivé
Christian Zen: a critical examination of the use of Zen meditation among Catholics. Daniel Millet Gil
Buddhism and the new paradigms of inclusion. Sergio Stern Nicolayevsky
Querificando la rueda del Dharma. Some approaches between Buddhism and homosexuality in Latin America. Hugo Córdova Quero and Cristian Mor Rodríguez
Bibliography of Buddhist studies in Spanish
Bibliography of Buddhist studies in Spanish. References published in Spain by authors of Spanish nationality/residence. Aleix Ruiz Falqués
Bibliography of Buddhist studies in Spanish by Spanish-American authors. María Elvira Ríos Peñafiel (Coordinator)
Directory of authors
Links of interest:
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