Seeding Buddhism in New Zealand: Namgyal Rinpoche and the Lake Rotoiti Retreat, 1973
One of the earliest Buddhist events to take place in New Zealand was a three-month retreat led by a Canadian Buddhist teacher known as Namgyal Rinpoche, on the shores of Lake Rotoiti, in 1973. This article will provide a qualitative case study of the retreat, and show how the practices and motivatio...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
[publisher not identified]
2022
|
| In: |
Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-144 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Namgyal Rinpoche 1931-2003
/ Lake Rotoiti
/ Retreat
/ Geschichte 1973
/ Buddhism
/ Western world
/ Imparting the faith
/ Sowing
/ Metaphor
|
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AH Religious education BL Buddhism KBS Australia; Oceania RC Liturgy RE Homiletics TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
New Zealand
B Lived Religion B postmodern Buddhism B Vipassana B seeding B Namgyal Rinpoche B Pacific Buddhism B ngöndro |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | One of the earliest Buddhist events to take place in New Zealand was a three-month retreat led by a Canadian Buddhist teacher known as Namgyal Rinpoche, on the shores of Lake Rotoiti, in 1973. This article will provide a qualitative case study of the retreat, and show how the practices and motivations of the group reveal and challenge the assumptions of some of the theoretical frameworks scholars have used to interpret the spread of dharma to the West. Instead, more contemporary frameworks such as "lived religion" and "postmodern Buddhism" more accurately classify the group and their practices. In addition, I argue that a set of horticultural metaphors, proposed by Wakoh Shannon Hickey with the additional category of "seeding," best describes the mechanisms of transmission that brought Buddhism to New Zealand. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1527-6457 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26034/lu.jgb.2022.2172 |