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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792444503321

Autore

Swearer Donald K. <1934->

Titolo

Buddhist World of Southeast Asia, The [[electronic resource] ] : Second Edition / / Donald K. Swearer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-3252-6

1-4416-3618-8

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in religious studies

Disciplina

294.3/370959

Soggetti

Buddhism - Social aspects - Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1. : The popular tradition. Ideal action ; Ritual occasions, merit, and the appropiation of power ; Festivals ; Rites of passage -- pt. 2. Buddhism and the State. Asoka, the exemplary Buddhist ruler ; kings and cosmology ; the Cosmological Scheme of the Three Worlds ; the Buddha as cosmocrator ; Modern nationalism and Buddhism -- pt. 3. Buddhism and Modernization. The changing role of the monk ; Reforming the Tradition ; the changing role of the laity ; Women and Buddhism ; Buddhism and the West -- postscript -- Appendix 1: Sigālaka Sutta : Code of lay ethics -- Appendix 2. Borobudur.