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'It is an excellent advocate for both reference publishing and for the belief system it represents' - Reference Reviews
'This work is a crucial source for specialists...Highly recommended' - G. J. Reece, American University, Choice
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism is a complete up-to-date one-volume desk reference, documenting the history, doctrines, schools, rituals, sacred places, basic ideas and concepts, and globalization of the entire Buddhist tradition. In addition, it provides bibliographic references to the leading scholarship by scholar from around the world. As such, it is an indispensable tool for students, teachers, and researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, as well as to the general reader.
The Encyclopedia is characterized by its wide range of contents, primary sources, and both the depth and quality of its entries. It allows its readers to quickly access information on all topics included in the volume.
It covers the study of Buddhism, Buddhist canons and literature, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, Nikaya Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Buddhist meditational systems, sacred places in Buddhism, practices and rituals, biographies of famous Buddhists (including ideal types), Buddhist ethics, Buddhist art(s), engaged Buddhism, Buddhism and technology, women in Buddhism, Buddhism in India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, and Buddhism in the Western World.
All readers of the Encyclopedia will benefit from a scholarly but readable work that lends itself to being approached from almost any starting point, and guides the reader to an increased knowledge of Buddhism through very easy access to all relevant materials.
- Sales Rank: #1205490 in Books
- Published on: 2004-02-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.69" h x 1.99" w x 6.88" l, 3.72 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 952 pages
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'It is an excellent advocate for both reference publishing and for the belief system it represents.' - Reference Reviews 'This work is a crucial source for specialists... Highly recommended.' --G.J. Reece, American University, Choice 'It's English-lanuguage approach acknowledges the global impact Buddism has had in recent decades, so it is an excellent advocate for both reference publishing and for the belief system it represents. An extensive list of further reading at the end provides a good basis for research. There is also a comprehensive analytical index' -- Reference Reviews I highly recommend Encyclopedia of Buddhism for purchase by university and seminary libraries. This encyclopedia would be very useful both to those with little or no knowledge of Buddhism and to those who know more about the religion. This book comes as close as possible to meeting its aim of providing an all-encompassing single-volume reference source. -- Christine Pesche, Theological Librarianship
About the Author
Charles S. Prebish holds the Charles Redd Chair in Religious Studies at Utah State University, USA.
Damien Keown is Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
They are the editors of the Routledge World Religions Series and authors of Introducing Buddhism (Routledge, 2006).
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Battle of the Buddhist Encyclopedias
By James S. Taylor
There are only two serious contenders around these days if you are limited to the English language and are looking for a serious encyclopedia of Buddhism. This one and the two-volume set by Buswell [9780028657189], which has sadly gone out of print. However, since you may get one used or look it up at a library, I am going to review both encyclopedias here.
I bought each when they were first released and have been using them for many years at this point. One cannot complain about either the editors or contributors chosen for both works. They are stellar and represent a who's who of established and rising scholars working in the field of Buddhist studies. Either product is an excellent choice and the publishers should be commended for making them available.
Both encyclopedias clock in at just under a thousand pages. Buswell's contains around 470 entries, while Keown's is closer to 340. However, a great deal of this difference is due to the fact that the first breaks out into separate articles many things that are covered within larger-range articles in the second. The coverage is fairly comparable overall, in my experience. Both projects represent a critical Western approach to Buddhism, as should be expected. Don't look here for warm devotional insights or a thoughtless repetition of standard histories. These books represent the current edge of scholarship at the first decade of the twenty-first century, not a mere repetition of Asian sources that have been handed on to the West. This criticism is mostly limited to correcting historical issues, not engaging Buddhist thought critically, a project for another book, which is long past due.
A key content difference is the result of how the contributors were asked to work. In Buswell, a huge group of authors [about 200] were assigned to specific entries. Thus, where there is overlap of coverage between different articles, you could be exposed to different viewpoints on it. In Keown, however, a smaller group of authors [less than 25] were assigned areas of coverage. This means that you are getting mostly one person's perspective on an entire area of Buddhist studies and it often results in a lot of repetition between articles that overlap; and by repetition I mean near cut-and-past from one article to the other. For this reason, even though both works are similar in size, I have had the sense that I am receiving a broader range of unique information from Buswell.
Buswell has a number of unique things that stood out for me. First was the fact that this team seemed more willing to give full articles to topics, such as Buddhist folk religion or the role of faith in Buddhism, that get ignored elsewhere. There also seemed to be a greater effort made to integrate the field of Buddhist studies with that of religious studies in general, with articles on topics such as evil, hermeneutics, worship, modernity, nationalism, and gender. There is also more coverage on the relationship of Buddhism to other religions, which I appreciated, but, for my likes, too much space devoted to art. Buswell indicates that their key emphases were on history, national traditions, doctrine, texts, biography, schools, meditation, liturgy, lay training, art history, and material culture.
With Keown, I saw a wider coverage of contemporary issues, particularly where Buddhism intersected with modern media. There are also a number of articles showing that the team is aware of their place in Buddhist studies and reflecting on the issues involved, showing a level of self-criticism. He sets their emphases on history, doctrine, schools, rituals, sacred places, biography, basic ideas & concepts, and issues involving the globalization of Buddhism. Due to the way it is organized, there are more and larger key articles, which then form the focus for a series of sub-topics relating to it. However, this is where a lot of the cut-and-paste repetition I mentioned above comes in. Also, the smaller number of in text photos is particularly conspicuous in places where they are truly needed, such as art. On the other hand, I have the impression that some important subjects, such as the Buddha and issues surrounding him, are given broader coverage, while, at the same time, some articles are in strange places; for example, "Buddhism in Tibet Today" is under B, instead of something like "Tibet, Buddhism Today."
The reference structure of both books is very similar. They each have an alphabetical listing of articles, an index that is more than a mere repetition of the article list [Keown is more useful], a subject outline with sub-topics [Keown is again more useful], and cross references to other articles at the end of each signed entry. The points Keown gains are partly off-set by the fact that Buswell moves much of these same cross-referencing features right into the articles, using capital letters to indicate them. Buswell's bibliographies are also with their articles, which is more helpful than Keown's more general by-subject list at the back. Aesthetically, Buswell has far more in text black and white photos, plus each of his volumes contains a middle section of color plates. The page layout is also nicer to look at and easier to read, with more space for making notes.
At the end of the day, the bottom line is that Buswell is expensive and out of print, while Keown has been republished in this inexpensive, one-volume, paperback edition, so most of you will go with the latter. Having completely read both encyclopedias (I know, I have no life), if I had to take only one to a desert island, it would be Buswell, so I recommend you pick up a used copy or a new one if it is ever reprinted. I felt it was more focused on core Buddhism and was a better over-all package; though you can't beat Keown's price for similar coverage. Really, each is an excellent resource and, if you can afford both, they nicely compliment each other's strengths and weaknesses.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Godsend, Epiphany, Catharsis
By Nathanael Greene
Thank you - a thousand times, thank you - James S. Taylor, for your excellent, comprehensive and insightful "customer review" of this book, dated August 2, 2010.
For me, Keown's and and Prebish's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM is an epiphany and catharsis - a godsend.
What has been so powerfully cathartic for me are this ENCYCLOPEDIA's entries concerning Buddhism in the "West," which address issues that I have intuitively felt right from the beginning of my studies of Buddhism, and which I had expressed in my own "customer reviews" on Amazon of one DVD, and one book, about Buddhism. I deleted my initial review of the DVD, as well as of one book, because I doubted my own intuitive judgment, and felt my original reviews might offend some people, e.g., "traditional " - not "modernist" (ergo, "Western") - Buddhists.
Ironically, in my second customer review, of the English-language DVD entitled BRILLIANT MOON, I very explicitly emphasized the issue of this DVD's failure to effectively inform a Western - repeat, Western - audience about Tibetan Buddhism. My review also emphasized that my interest in purchasing the BRILLIANT MOON DVD was to learn basics about mainstream Buddhism, rather than Tibetan Buddhism - an offshoot.
The revelations and intellectual orientations provided in this ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM has significantly accelerated my understanding of Buddhism, probably saving me years (and dollars) of "hit or miss" purchases of books about Buddhism that are meaningfully informative to me.
In my search for informative books about Buddhism, the Internet has proven to be my "Guru," by focusing me on the correct path or journey to enlightenment about Buddhism, as, e.g., provided by this ENCYCLOPEDIA.
I was very disappointed that some entries in this ENCYCLOPEDIA refer to Buddhism as a "religion" rather than as a philosophy or a "belief system" - e.g., as in John Power's excellent entry entitled "Buddhism in Tibet Today." The Buddha himself took an extremely strong anti-religion stance in his opposition to the religions of his day, and had no intention of establishing a religion. In fact, the Buddha admonished his disciples that he never wanted to hear that he was being worshiped, and emphasized that he saw himself as a teacher.
The entries in this book are very lucid, very readable.
In retrospect, regarding the cost of this ENCYCLOPEDIA, as a beginner in studying Buddhism, I spent a hefty sum of money to purchase a number of Buddhist texts on an uninformed, "hit or miss" basis. Many of my initial book purchases have subsequently been trumped by this ENCYCLOPEDIA. For much less than the aggregate sums I spent on those initial purchases, I could have spent purchasing this one book, the cost of which is inexpensive by comparison. So, don't be put off by this book's cost; furthermore, I obtained my "like new" hardbound copy for $ 61.00!
POSTSCRIPT (December 29, 2014): I am now in receipt of the two volume ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM, by Robert E. Buswell as Editor in Chief, which I ordered based on the recommendation of James S. Taylor in his customer review. Compared to the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM edited by Keown and Prebish, Buswell's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM is weak on the coverage of Buddhism and the Western world, including the inherent issue of Buddhism and modernity. If I had received Buswell's ENCYCLOPEDIA first, I may have missed this extremely critical issue of Buddhism and the Western world, including modernity.
I cannot over-emphasize how critical I find this subject of Buddhism's interface with the Western world, and modernity. From my current understanding and perspective, modernity and the Western point of view of Buddhism are often more in line with the Buddha's original teachings, than some developments in some Asian Buddhist traditions (ergo, as depicted in the DVD "BRILLIANT MOON").
Bottom line on the Robert E. Buswell's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM: It's excellent too - five stars.
Switching gears: Keown and Prebish's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM has another valuable feature: The individual entries in Keown and Prebish identify the author of each entry, at the end of the entry. Furthermore, on pages xxiv-xxvii of Keown and Prebish, all of the entries of each author are listed together, so that if a reader likes one entry by the acknowledged author, the reader can refer to the list of all the other entries listed by that particular author, e.g., under the subject category of "Buddhism in the modern world," the entries are all authored by Martin Baumann, and all of Martin Baumann's entries are listed by title. Robert E. Buswell's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHISM has this feature as well - a very welcome feature.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
No search ability in Kindle version
By Susan M. Darlington
Excellent resource for the content. I got the Kindle version, though, which I then discovered is not searchable. That means a lot of flipping pages because you can only jump to the beginning of each set of entries by the letter of the alphabet. That makes a great resources cumbersome, indeed! I'm surprised Kindle (or the press) did not make this edition more useful for Kindle.
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