{"id":34771,"date":"2025-05-12T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=34771"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:24:36","slug":"vesak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2025\/05\/12\/vesak\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asia\u2019s Dharma: Essays on Buddhism in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Vesak Day we would like to draw your attention to Associate Professor of History and Foo Hai Fellow in Buddhist Studies Jack Meng-Tat Chia\u2019s new essay collection, Dongnanya fayin: Xinjiapo fojiao yanjiu lunji<\/em>\u300a\u6771\u5357\u4e9e\u6cd5\u97f3\uff1a\u65b0\u52a0\u5761\u4f5b\u6559\u7814\u7a76\u8ad6\u96c6\u300b(Southeast Asia\u2019s Dharma: Essays on Buddhism in Singapore<\/em>), published by Boyoung Culture (\u535a\u63da\u6587\u5316) this year as part of their prestigious \u2018The Classics of Religious Studies\u2019 (\u5b97\u6559\u5b78\u8005\u7d93\u5178) book series. The Chinese-language book is available to order here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In addition, there will be a book launch (in Chinese) co-organized with the NUS Department of Chinese Studies on 22 August 2025, as well as a roundtable discussion (in English) of the book at the NUS Library on 1 October 2025 as part of the SG60 celebrations. More information about these events will be shared closer to August and September.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The presence and significance of Buddhism in maritime Southeast Asia warrant deeper scholarly inquiry and rigorous analysis. This region, often associated with the Malay Archipelago, encompasses the predominantly Muslim nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei, as well as the Catholic-majority Philippines. Singapore, with its predominantly Buddhist and ethnically Chinese population, is frequently regarded as an outlier. The author contends that the forms of Buddhism referred to as ‘South China Sea Buddhism’ have played a vital role within the predominantly Islamic and Catholic milieus of maritime Southeast Asia, particularly among its Chinese communities. Rooted in the historical interactions between China and Southeast Asia, South China Sea Buddhism has continually evolved through processes of adaptation, localization, and innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n

This volume is a collection of essays primarily focused on Buddhism in Singapore. By examining themes such as transnational networks, religious diplomacy, and the emergence of modernist Buddhist practices, the book aims to illuminate and critically analyze the intricate and dynamic developmental trajectories of Buddhism in maritime Southeast Asia, employing interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This Vesak Day we would like to draw your attention to Associate Professor of History and Foo Hai Fellow in Buddhist Studies Jack Meng-Tat Chia\u2019s new essay collection, Dongnanya fayin: Xinjiapo fojiao yanjiu lunji\u300a\u6771\u5357\u4e9e\u6cd5\u97f3\uff1a\u65b0\u52a0\u5761\u4f5b\u6559\u7814\u7a76\u8ad6\u96c6\u300b(Southeast Asia\u2019s Dharma: Essays on Buddhism in Singapore), published by Boyoung Culture (\u535a\u63da\u6587\u5316) this year as part of their prestigious \u2018The Classics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":34866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","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":"set","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":[4589,4538,4529,4569,4606,4609,4604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","category-history","category-news","category-non-fiction","category-research","category-singapore-research-nexus","category-visible"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","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=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34780,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions\/34780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}