Works by Richard Gombrich
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- Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka.Richard Gombrich &Gananath Obeyesekere -1992 -Philosophy East and West 42 (2):375-378.
- Christianity as Model and Analogue in the Formation of the ‘Humanistic’ Buddhism of Tài X? and Hs?ng Yún.Yu-Shuang Yao &Richard Gombrich -2018 -Buddhist Studies Review 34 (2):205-237.This article examines how modern Chinese Buddhism has been influenced by Christianity. For our purposes ‘modern Chinese Buddhism’ refers to a form of what has become known in the West as ‘Engaged Buddhism’, but in Chinese is known by titles which can be translated ‘Humanistic Buddhism’ or ‘Buddhism for Human Life’. This tradition was initiated on the Chinese mainland between the two World Wars by the monk Tài X?, and Part one of the article is devoted to him. Since the (...) communist conquest of China, its main branches have flourished in Taiwan, whence two of them have spread worldwide. The most successful, at least in numerical terms, has been Fo Guang Shan, founded by a personal disciple of Tài X?, Hsing Yun, now very old, and it is on this movement that we concentrate in Parts two and three. We differentiate between conscious imitation and analogous development due to similar social circumstances, and show how Protestant Christianity and Roman Catholicism have had different effects. In Part four, we examine Fo Guang Shan as a missionary religion. (shrink)No categories
- (1 other version)Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way.Frank E. Reynolds,John Holt,John Strong,Heinz Bechert,Richard Gombrich,Garma C. C. Chang,Yang Hsuanchih,Yi-T'ung Wang &David J. Kalupahana -1986 -Buddhist-Christian Studies 6:163.No categories
- The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka: Religious Tradition, Reinterpretation and Response.Richard Gombrich &George D. Bond -1989 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (4):661.No categories
- Radical Buddhism for Modern Confucians.Richard Gombrich &Yu-Shuang Yao -2014 -Buddhist Studies Review 30 (2):237-259.The new Taiwanese religious movement Tzu Chi raises interesting issues for the study of religions. First, as a Chinese form of Buddhism, it embodies an attempt to reconcile or even merge the cultures and mindsets of two utterly different civilizations, the Indian and the Chinese. Secondly, it casts doubt on the presupposition that a sect, as against a church, demands of its members exclusive allegiance. Thirdly, it shows that an emphasis on orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy may be modern as well (...) as archaic. Fourthly, it also suggests that the view that secularization is tantamount to a narrowing of the domain of religion cannot be taken for granted. In the case of Tzu Chi there is probably some overlap between the last three issues, in that they show that generalizations about sects formulated by western sociologists have taken Christian sects as their model and may not be universally applicable. (shrink)No categories
- British Higher Education Policy in the Last Twenty Years: The Murder of a Profession.Richard Gombrich -2013 -Synthesis Philosophica 28 (1-2):7-29.
- A Visit to BrahmÄ the Heron.Richard Gombrich -2001 -Journal of Indian Philosophy 29 (1/2):95-108.
- Fifty Years of Buddhist Studies in Britain.Richard Gombrich -2005 -Buddhist Studies Review 22 (2):141-154.No categories
- The Vessantara Jātaka, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Dasaratha Jātaka.Richard Gombrich -1985 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 105 (3):427.No categories
- Buddhist Studies in Honour of Hammalava Saddhatissa.Gatare Dhammapala,Richard Gombrich &K. R. Norman -1987 -Philosophy East and West 37 (1):101-103.
- The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara.B. G. Gokhale,Margaret Cone &Richard F. Gombrich -1980 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 100 (3):320.No categories
- Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Buddhist Treatment of the Dead.Richard Gombrich -2018 -Buddhist Studies Review 35 (1-2):97-110.Every culture is concerned about what happens to people when they die. Even when the dominant religion/ideology provides an answer, an examination of what people actually say and do generally discloses various inconsistences, for example between what they claim to believe and what their actions suggest that they believe or at least consider possible. In every traditional Buddhist society, adherents are supposed to believe in rebirth, a fate which only those who achieve enlightenment escape, and yet in both the Indian (...) and the Chinese Buddhist traditions people worship and to some extent interact with their dead ancestors and in doing so preserve local pre-Buddhist beliefs and customs. In both traditions there are likewise inconsistencies between what people believe about themselves and what they believe about others, as well as beliefs about how to treat dead parents and how to treat dead strangers. Much in the observable mixture of beliefs and practices may be ascribed to the Buddha himself. (shrink)No categories
- Did the Buddha know Sanskrit?Richard Gombrich -2014 -Buddhist Studies Review 30 (2):287-288.The new Taiwanese religious movement Tzu Chi raises interesting issues for the study of religions. First, as a Chinese form of Buddhism, it embodies an attempt to reconcile or even merge the cultures and mindsets of two utterly different civilizations, the Indian and the Chinese. Secondly, it casts doubt on the presupposition that a sect, as against a church, demands of its members exclusive allegiance. Thirdly, it shows that an emphasis on orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy may be modern as well (...) as archaic. Fourthly, it also suggests that the view that secularization is tantamount to a narrowing of the domain of religion cannot be taken for granted. In the case of Tzu Chi there is probably some overlap between the last three issues, in that they show that generalizations about sects formulated by western sociologists have taken Christian sects as their model and may not be universally applicable. (shrink)No categories
- Eliade on Buddhism.Richard Gombrich -1974 -Religious Studies 10 (2):225 - 231.Mircea Eliade's book Yoga: Immortality and Freedom has deservedly become a classic, and has reached, as he intended, a far wider audience than the narrow circle of Indologists. The book's popularity may justify the following remarks. It was originally published in French in 1936, then in an enlarged French version in 1954, and in English translation in 1958. There has thus been ample opportunity for revision, and indeed in the second English edition , which we are taking as our text, (...) Eliade notes that he has made ‘numerous minor corrections’. However, the accuracy of his observations on early Buddhism still leaves much to be desired. Let us try to set the record straight. (shrink)
- (2 other versions)No title available: Religious studies.Richard Gombrich -1974 -Religious Studies 10 (2):240-241.
- Preface.Richard Gombrich -2010 -Revue Internationale de Philosophie 253 (3):311-313.
- The Buddha's thought.Richard Gombrich -2010 -Revue Internationale de Philosophie 253 (3):315-339.
- Why Has British Education Gone So Wrong, and Why Can’t We Stop the Rot?: Popper’s Nightmare.Richard Gombrich -2013 -Synthesis Philosophica 28 (1-2):31-37.
- Buddhist Studies in Honor of Hammalava SaddhātissaBuddhist Studies in Honor of Hammalava Saddhatissa.Steven B. Goodman,Gatare Dhammapala,Richard Gombrich &K. R. Norman -1988 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 108 (2):329.No categories
- Theravāda Transformed?Theravāda Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern ColomboBuddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri LankaTheravada Transformed?Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo.Edmund Perry,Richard F. Gombrich,Richard Gombrich &Gananath Obeyesekere -1997 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 117 (2):339.
- Book Review. [REVIEW]Richard Gombrich -1989 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (4):661-664.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Studien zur Indologie und Buddhismuskunde: Festgabe des Seminars für Indologie und Buddhismuskunde für Professor Dr. Heinz Bechert. Herausgegeben von Reinhold Grüendahl, Jens-Uwe Hartman, Petra Kieffer-Pülz. [REVIEW]Richard Gombrich -1995 -Buddhist Studies Review 12 (1):93-97.Studien zur Indologie und Buddhismuskunde: Festgabe des Seminars für Indologie und Buddhismuskunde für Professor Dr. Heinz Bechert. Herausgegeben von Reinhold Grüendahl, Jens-Uwe Hartman, Petra Kieffer-Pülz. Indica et Tibetica Verlag, Bonn 1993. 326 pp., 1 photograph, 4 tables. DM 64.00.No categories
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