Modern Buddhism
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Modern Buddhism encompasses a modern approach to a wide number of Buddhist beliefs applicable to contemporary circumstance.
Renunciation of worldly matters, devotional practices, ceremonies and the invocation of bodhisattvas amoung other widely accepted precepts are perceived to be inconvenient or impracticable to many self declared 21st century Buddhists highlighted by a review of living, self declared Buddhists found on the list of buddhists . The rejection of enlightenment thinking a pillar of modernism also challenges traditional Bhuddist principles.
Modern Buddhism includes a number of contemporary self declared or modernized Buddhist movements such as Humanistic Buddhism, linkage between Buddhism and Gnosticism,Sōka Gakkai or Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism, the Vipassana movement, New Kadampa Tradition, Fo Guang Shan amoung others.
References
- Donald S. Lopez Jr, A Modern Buddhist Bible, Beacon Press Books, 2002, ISBN 0-8070-1243-2
- James, Alan and James, Jacqui, Modern Buddhism, Aucana, 1989, ISBN 0-9511-7691-9
- Daniel A. Metraux, The International Expansion of a Modern Buddhist Movement: The Soka Gakkai in Southeast Asia and Australia, University Press of America, 2001, ISBN-13: 9780761819042
- Charles S. Prebish, and Martin Baumann, Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN 0-520-23490-1