Buddhist Modernities

Ritzinger, Justin R.

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“…Some statistics still put Vietnam as "one of the least religious countries in the world" as the majority of the population declares no affiliation with any religious institution (Hoskins & Ninh, 2017;Rots, 2017;Vuong et al, 2018b;Vuong & Vuong, 2018). Though lacking statistical backup, much of the academic literature on Vietnamese religious practices agrees on the highly fervent religious belief and worship in Vietnam, some even characterizing this phenomenon as "widespread re-enchantment" (Rots, 2017;Taylor, 2007). The revitalization of religious practices, particularly Buddhism in the house designs, has gone hand in hand with the country's socioeconomic modernization (Rots, 2017).…”

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“…Though lacking statistical backup, much of the academic literature on Vietnamese religious practices agrees on the highly fervent religious belief and worship in Vietnam, some even characterizing this phenomenon as "widespread re-enchantment" (Rots, 2017;Taylor, 2007). The revitalization of religious practices, particularly Buddhism in the house designs, has gone hand in hand with the country's socioeconomic modernization (Rots, 2017). In fact, thanks to the increasing wealth of a certain class, constructing Buddhist pagodas, or known in Vietnamese as "spiritual tourism destinations," has almost become a profitable business.…”

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Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

Khiem¹,

La²,

Vuong³

et al. 2019

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The study of cultural evolution has taken on an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse approach in explicating phenomena of cultural transmission and adoptions. Inspired by this computational movement, this study uses Bayesian networks analysis, combining both the frequentist and the Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, to investigate the highly representative elements in the cultural evolution of a Vietnamese city’s architecture in the early 20th century. With a focus on the façade design of 68 old houses in Hanoi’s Old Quarter (based on 78 data lines extracted from 248 photos), the study argues that it is plausible to look at the aesthetics, architecture, and designs of the house façade to find traces of cultural evolution in Vietnam, which went through more than six decades of French colonization and centuries of sociocultural influence from China. The in-depth technical analysis, though refuting the presumed model on the probabilistic dependency among the variables, yields several results, the most notable of which is the strong influence of Buddhism over the decorations of the house façade. Particularly, in the top 5 networks with the best Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) scores and p<0.05, the variable for decorations (DC) always has a direct probabilistic dependency on the variable B for Buddhism. The paper then checks the robustness of these models using Hamiltonian MCMC method and find the posterior distributions of the models’ coefficients all satisfy the technical requirement. Finally, this study suggests integrating Bayesian statistics in the social sciences in general and for the study of cultural evolution and architectural transformation in particular.

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Section: The Strong Signals Of Buddhist Decorations On the House Façadementioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

Khiem¹,

La²,

Vuong³

et al. 2019

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The remaking of a Tibetan mountain cult festival: the worship of landscape deities in the Rebgong Valley, Amdo

Havnevik

2023

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The Bodily Discourse in Modern Chinese Buddhism—Asceticism and Its Presentation in Buddhist Periodicals

2020

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This article focuses on accounts of bodily asceticism published in Buddhist periodicals in Republican China (1912–1949) in order to explore the mentality and motivation of publicly presenting this seemingly fanatic and backward tradition in an era marked by modernization. By zeroing in on practices of self-immolation, bodily mutilation, and blood writing, as presented in periodicals advocating either reform or preservation of Buddhist tradition, the article reveals that Buddhists with different visions for the modern form of Chinese Buddhism, despite their multifaceted responses, reached a consensus: ascetic practices were part of the tradition worthy of preservation and a strong testament of Buddhist morality. Arguments and eulogies about specific cases, preserved in these periodicals, made Buddhist asceticism an integral part of Chinese Buddhism’s modern transformation, which contributes to the rethinking of religion and modernity discourse.

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Buddhist Modernities

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Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

The remaking of a Tibetan mountain cult festival: the worship of landscape deities in the Rebgong Valley, Amdo

The Bodily Discourse in Modern Chinese Buddhism—Asceticism and Its Presentation in Buddhist Periodicals

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