Multiple Buddhisms in Ladakh: Strategic Secularities and Missionaries Fighting Decline

Williams-Oerberg, Elizabeth; Schedneck, Brooke; Gleig, Ann

doi:10.3390/rel12110932

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“…Transformations have also been observed in the traditional food, clothing, marriage ceremonies, and overall lifestyle (Aengst 2013 ). People perceive that changing lifestyles have impacted the religious practices among youth, making them more vulnerable to religious conversions and inter-religious marriages (Aengst 2013 ; Williams-Oerberg et al 2021 ). Gender bias is still found with evidence of males getting more opportunities than females in the emerging development sectors, including tourism (Fig.…”

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Disaster-development interface and its impact on emerging vulnerability scenario in Ladakh region of northwestern Himalayas

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The Union Territory of Ladakh, located in the northwestern Himalayan region, is highly vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic hazards like earthquakes, landslides, snow avalanches, flash floods, cloud bursts, and border conflicts. Occurrences of these disasters have significantly influenced the development and vulnerability scenario of Trans-Himalayan Ladakh. Findings reveal that despite suffering losses from natural and human-induced disasters, the region has benefited by grabbing the attention of policymakers at the national level. Consequently, long-term developments were positively impacted, reflecting infrastructural upgradation, improved transportation and communication, profoundly improving the socio-economic well-being of the people. Furthermore, post-disaster developments have managed to showcase the unique physiography and adventurous terrains of Ladakh, promoting tourism as the main economic driver in the region. The exponential growth of tourism and associated sectors have influenced the vulnerability scenario, which was quantified using the multi-criterion-based analytical hierarchical processes (AHP) method, indicating an increase in climate change-related vulnerability, followed by socio-cultural, environmental, and physical vulnerabilities. Specifically, the vulnerabilities with respect to flash floods, landslides, erratic rainfall, haphazard constructions, cultural dilution, water crisis, and changes in land use patterns have been exacerbated across the study area. The study highlights the need for effective management of these emerging vulnerabilities through proper planning to ensure long-term sustainable development goals in this environmentally fragile region.

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“…In contrast to the standard Buddhist Modernist approach described above, a recent ethnographic study of multiple forms of Buddhism in Ladakh by Williams-Oerberg et al (2021) shows that Buddhism can be represented in multiple ways, including the extremes of scientific reason vs. magical or mystical religion, in a single location and by the same leaders. In addition, McDaniel (2014, pp.…”

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Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand

Kidpromma¹

2022

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This paper highlights Thailand’s distinctive form of Buddhist Modernism through an exploration of religious piety among female sex workers in the city of Chiangmai. The generally accepted key basis of Buddhist Modernism, as depicted by certain Western Buddhist scholars, is interaction and engagement with modernity. More specifically, it is seen as incorporating modern science into the Buddhist worldview, and as regarding meditation as a core practice of ‘true Buddhism’. Crucial components of popular Buddhism, such as magical monks and mystical rituals, are excluded from this depiction of Buddhist Modernism, and even decried as ‘false Buddhism’, despite their canonical basis and long-term acceptance. Using ethnographic methods, this paper argues instead that the result of interactions with modernity by popular Buddhists always includes engagement with and mythologizing of traditional cosmology. That is, rather than solely involving global networks and scientific rationalism, Thai Buddhist Modernism is the product of complex patterns of interaction among local beliefs, mystical practices, and modernity. The purpose of this integration of modern and popular Buddhism in the religious practices of sex workers is to create loving-kindness (metta). Metta, in turn, is held to bring luck and attractiveness to practitioners, allowing them to earn an income to support their impoverished families and live well in modern society, as well as to accumulate good merit (bun) to improve their religious lives.

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British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability

Starkey

2023

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Multiple Buddhisms in Ladakh: Strategic Secularities and Missionaries Fighting Decline

Cited by 4 publications

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Disaster-development interface and its impact on emerging vulnerability scenario in Ladakh region of northwestern Himalayas

Disaster-development interface and its impact on emerging vulnerability scenario in Ladakh region of northwestern Himalayas

Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand

British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability

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