Anthropology and the Buddhological Imagination: Reconstructing the Invisible Life of Texts
Résumé
This paper aims to explore how anthropology may most effectively contribute to the art of buddhological imagination. It especially emphasizes that the commonly envisaged contribution of anthropology to Buddhist studies requires, in order to be fully productive, an absolute reversal of approach to the study of Buddhism. At the same time, it also notes a rift dividing scholars working on Buddhism, irrespective of disciplinary constituencies and reference materials employed, as a result of their
representation of Buddhism