Introduction: Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck 1. Teaching Buddhism as a Lived Religion Beverley Foulks McGuire 2. Stories of Lived Buddhism in Sanskrit Literature Karen Muldoon-Hules 3. Pathways to Monastic Life: The Case of Eison (1201-1290) Lori Meeks 4. Eison, Preaching, and Performance in Medieval Japan David Quinter 5. Lived Buddhism and Mount Wutai, China in the Northern Dynasties (439-589) and Tang (618-907) Periods Susan Andrews 6. Representation Matters: Women in Tibetan Life Writing Alison Melnick Dyer 7. Historical Legends of the Buddha in the Region of Bongabhumi Sanjoy Barua Chowdhury 8.
Material Culture in Pure Land Buddhist Practice Kendall Marchman 9. Living Sacred Landscape: Space, Cosmology, and Community in the Buddhist Temples in Northern Thailand Piyawit Moonkham and Michael Chladek 10. Between Science and Supernatural Power: Tea and Buddhist Communities in Taiwan Kai Shmushko 11. Buddhist Pilgrimage and Living Religious Heritage in North India David Geary 12. Material Buddhist Culture in Healing: Taiwanese Approaches to Healing Illnesses After Death Emily S. Wu 13. Prayers for Academic Success in South Korea Florence Galmiche 14. Being Young and Buddhist in Precarious Times: Exploring the Relational, Contextual, and Digital in Lived Buddhism Kim Lam 15.
Raising Temple Family Members: Intergenerational Temple Dynamics in Japan Jessica Starling 16. Passing the Light of Buddhism in Malaysia through Dharma Class Tan Lee Ooi 17. Disseminating Buddhism in Transnational Organizations Wei-yi Cheng 18. Burmese American Youth Experiences with Theravada Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area Rachelle Saruya 19. On Ecological Degradation and the Practice of Purification in Urban Mongolia Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko 20. Charity in a Working-Class Taiwanese Buddhist Community: Forming Affinities with Food to Build the Pure Land on Earth Justin R. Ritzinger 21. Reconfiguring Buddhism for Youth in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Dat Manh Nguyen 22.
Buddhist "Magic" and Buddhist Modernism: Karma, Relatedness, and Hungry Ghosts in Cross-Cultural Perspective Neena Mahadev 23. Hindu-Buddhist Conversion in Nepal Cameron David Warner 24. Lived Traditions and the Pursuit of Happiness in Thailand Rachelle M. Scott 25. Meeting the Buddha: Introductory Buddhist Retreats and Spiritual Tourism in Britain Caroline Starkey 26. How to Make an Ancestor: Death and Funeral Rituals in Laos Vanina Bouté 27. Preserving the Forests and Walks for Peace in Cambodia Napakadol Kittisenee 28. Critique, Reform, and Ethical Innovation: Buddhist Philosophies in Contemporary Tibetan Hip Hop Kati Fitzgerald 29.
Healing Through Days of Mindfulness and Retreats in the Southern United States: The Magnolia Grove Meditation Practice Center in the Plum Village Tradition Brooke Schedneck.