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UNINA9910824112003321 |
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Autore |
Swearer Donald K. <1934-> |
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Titolo |
The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia / / Donald K. Swearer |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-4384-3252-6 |
1-4416-3618-8 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in religious studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Buddhism - Social aspects - Southeast Asia |
Southeast Asia Religious life and customs |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A wide-ranging, readable account of the Theravada Buddhist thought and practice in the Southeast Asian societies of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. |
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