{"id":30350,"date":"2022-05-11T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=30350"},"modified":"2022-05-11T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:32:37","slug":"beyond-the-mainland-buddhist-communities-in-maritime-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2022\/05\/11\/beyond-the-mainland-buddhist-communities-in-maritime-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Mainland: Buddhist Communities in Maritime Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Buddhists in Singapore and around the world prepare to celebrate Vesak Day, a Special Issue of the journal Religions <\/em>edited by Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History) has been published, titled \u2018Beyond the Mainland: Buddhist Communities in Maritime Southeast Asia\u2019. It features five articles by Southeast Asian-based scholars in Anthropology, Chinese Studies, Communication Studies, History, and Religious Studies that explore the diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhist communities in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Buddhist Philanthropist: The Life and Times of Lee Choon Seng\u2019 by Dr Guan Thye Hue (NUS Chinese Studies), Chang Tang (Xiamen University Malaysia), and Klan Choo Juhn Khai (Xiamen University Malaysia) uses the biography of Lee Choon Seng (\u674e\u4fca\u627f, 1888\u20131966) as a prism to examine the development of lay Buddhist piety and philanthropy in twentieth-century Singapore. Lee Choon Seng, a successful Chinese businessman and community leader, was arguably the most prominent Buddhist householder in Singapore history.\u00a0The article presents Lee Choon Seng\u2019s religious activities in three phases of his life: the pre-World War Two era (1920\u20131942), the Japanese Occupation period (1942\u20131945), and the post-war era (1945\u20131966).<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Contramodernist Buddhism\u2019 in a Global City-State: Shinnyo-en in Singapore\u201d by NUS History alumnus\u00a0Keng Yung Phua\u00a0explores the history and development of Shinnyo-en (\u771f\u5982\u82d1), a new Japanese Buddhist movement, from its arrival in Singapore in 1983 to the present.\u00a0Building on the notion of \u2018Contramodernist Buddhism\u2019, Phua argues that the changing memory of the Japanese Occupation in Singapore, coupled with the spiritual appeal of Shinnyo-en\u2019s contramodernist spirituality and practices to Singaporean Chinese Buddhists, has led to the organization\u2019s rapid expansion in this global city-state. The article places the development of Shinnyo-en in the larger context of Japan-Singapore relations and concludes with a discussion of Shinnyo-en\u2019s socially engaged Buddhist activities in Singapore\u2019s society.<\/p>\n

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Access the whole Special Issue here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read \u2018The Buddhist Philanthropist: The Life and Times of Lee Choon Seng\u2019 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read \u201c\u2018Contramodernist Buddhism\u2019 in a Global City-State: Shinnyo-en in Singapore\u201d here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As Buddhists in Singapore and around the world prepare to celebrate Vesak Day, a Special Issue of the journal Religions edited by Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History) has been published, titled \u2018Beyond the Mainland: Buddhist Communities in Maritime Southeast Asia\u2019. It features five articles by Southeast Asian-based scholars in Anthropology, Chinese Studies, Communication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":30351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529,4604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-visible"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30352,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30350\/revisions\/30352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}