1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158591403321

Autore

Savrami Katia

Titolo

Ancient dramatic chorus through the eyes of a modern choreographer : Zouzou Nikoloudi / / by Katia Savrami

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4438-6090-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

792.82

Soggetti

Choreography

Greek drama (Tragedy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781796403321

Autore

Carbine Jason A. <1971->

Titolo

Sons of the Buddha [[electronic resource] ] : continuities and ruptures in a Burmese monastic tradition / / Jason A. Carbine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16671-2

9786613166715

3-11-025410-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Religion and society, , 1437-5370 ; ; 50

Disciplina

294.3/65709591

Soggetti

Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) - Burma

Religion and sociology - Burma

Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) - Burma - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Significant revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Chicago, 2004) under title: An Ethic of Continuity: Shwegyin monks and the Sasana in Contemporary Burma/Myanmar.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures and Tables -- A Note on the Name Myanmar -- Conventions for Transliterations, etc. -- Map of Myanmar -- Introduction: From the kyamuni Buddha to the Shwegyin Tradition -- Chapter One: The Shwegyin Tradition and Its Traditionalism -- Chapter Two: Institutional Moorings -- Chapter Three: Classic Ritual Permutations -- Chapter Four: Existential Ruminations -- Conclusion: Continuities and Ruptures -- Epilogue: A Comment on Continuity and Rupture, from Afar -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Burmese Terms -- Index of Pali and Sanskrit Terms -- Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Intended as a methodological and theoretical contribution to the study of religion and society, this book examines Buddhist monasticism in Myanmar. The book focuses on the Shwegyin, one of the most important but least understood monastic groups in the country. Analyzing the group as a tradition constructed around ideas of continuity and disruption/rupture, the study illuminates key aspects of monastic and wider Burmese Buddhist thought and practice, and



ultimately argues for the distinctiveness of elements of that thought and practice in comparison to the Buddhist cultures of Sri Lanka and Laos.After situating the Shwegyin within the history of Buddhist monasticism more generally, and within the vicissitudes of modern Burmese political history, the book proceeds along two scholarly avenues. It adopts an interdisciplinary method with attention to biographical, administrative, doctrinal, and ethnographic evidence. Theoretically, the book engages scholarly discussion about "traditions" and their "traditionalisms" and advances a specific type of interpretive approach built on bringing the viewpoints and practices of the Shwegyin into conversation with the enterprise of understanding larger historical and cultural patterns in the Buddhist societies of South and Southeast Asia.