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Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought by James Mark Shields (review)

Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought by James Mark Shields (review) Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought. By James Mark Shields. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 206. Hardcover $89.95, isbn 978-1-40-941798-9. Reviewed by Steven Heine Florida International University heines@fiu.edu Critical Buddhism (hihan bukky) is an innovative methodological movement that was formed by a couple of Buddhist scholars at Komazawa University in Tokyo, which houses the largest Buddhist Studies department in Japan and is affiliated with the St Zen sect. The approach initially developed in the mid-1980s in response to a nexus of sociopolitical issues that were at the time plaguing St and other Japanese Buddhist schools. James Mark Shields explains in the "Introduction" to his new book, Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought, how at a major conference on world religions held back in 1979 a representative of the St sect declared that there was no discrimination against the outcast community of Burakumin by Buddhism in Japan. Because egregious examples of such bias were well documented over many decades, the expression of denial triggered a round of protests. This, in turn, caused St leaders to respond by commissioning a group of professors to investigate the history of Buddhist teachings and attitudes that may http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought by James Mark Shields (review)

Heine, Steven
Philosophy East and West , Volume 65 (3) – Sep 3, 2015
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Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought. By James Mark Shields. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 206. Hardcover $89.95, isbn 978-1-40-941798-9. Reviewed by Steven Heine Florida International University heines@fiu.edu Critical Buddhism (hihan bukky) is an innovative methodological movement that was formed by a couple of Buddhist scholars at Komazawa University in Tokyo, which houses the largest Buddhist Studies department in Japan and is affiliated with the St Zen sect. The approach initially developed in the mid-1980s in response to a nexus of sociopolitical issues that were at the time plaguing St and other Japanese Buddhist schools. James Mark Shields explains in the "Introduction" to his new book, Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought, how at a major conference on world religions held back in 1979 a representative of the St sect declared that there was no discrimination against the outcast community of Burakumin by Buddhism in Japan. Because egregious examples of such bias were well documented over many decades, the expression of denial triggered a round of protests. This, in turn, caused St leaders to respond by commissioning a group of professors to investigate the history of Buddhist teachings and attitudes that may

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