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Dear Colleagues,
I have been approached by BLACKWELL about undertaking a book project designed to create a different kind of introductory textbook/sourcebook on Buddhism, one that would convey the diversity and breadth of Buddhist traditions by assembling the life histories of Buddhists. The goal would be to draw upon unpublished or published accounts of the lives of monks and nuns, householders, upasakas and
upasikas, perhaps even some who are hardly observant. I can imagine blending accounts of living practitioners with textual biographies of figures from the past, a bricollage of ethnography and textual
accounts. Perhaps 28 short chapters, with the breadth of Asian peoples central, but including Western converts as well. And both genders of course.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, please e-mail me off list, with a brief paragraph indicating the person(s) you have in mind. Blackwell is very excited about this project and I intend to
move ahead with it if our there are scholars interested in contributing.
Todd Lewis
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College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, Massachusetts USA
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