LEADER 04426nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910781796403321 005 20230725050847.0 010 $a1-283-16671-2 010 $a9786613166715 010 $a3-11-025410-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110254105 035 $a(CKB)2550000000042843 035 $a(EBL)912902 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000530405 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12213305 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000530405 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10561223 035 $a(PQKB)10065303 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC912902 035 $a(DE-B1597)123497 035 $a(OCoLC)747006750 035 $a(OCoLC)748348697 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110254105 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL912902 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10486446 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316671 035 $a(OCoLC)898769526 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000042843 100 $a20101015d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSons of the Buddha$b[electronic resource] $econtinuities and ruptures in a Burmese monastic tradition /$fJason A. Carbine 210 $aNew York $cWalter de Gruyter$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 225 1 $aReligion and society,$x1437-5370 ;$v50 300 $aSignificant 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. 311 $a3-11-025409-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $tFigures and Tables -- $tA Note on the Name Myanmar -- $tConventions for Transliterations, etc. -- $tMap of Myanmar -- $tIntroduction: From the kyamuni Buddha to the Shwegyin Tradition -- $tChapter One: The Shwegyin Tradition and Its Traditionalism -- $tChapter Two: Institutional Moorings -- $tChapter Three: Classic Ritual Permutations -- $tChapter Four: Existential Ruminations -- $tConclusion: Continuities and Ruptures -- $tEpilogue: A Comment on Continuity and Rupture, from Afar -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex of Authors -- $tIndex of Burmese Terms -- $tIndex of Pali and Sanskrit Terms -- $tIndex of Subjects 330 $aIntended as a methodological and theoretical contribution to the study of religion and society, this book examines Buddhist monasticism in Myanmar. The book focuses on the Shwegyin, one of the most important but least understood monastic groups in the country. Analyzing the group as a tradition constructed around ideas of continuity and disruption/rupture, the study illuminates key aspects of monastic and wider Burmese Buddhist thought and practice, and ultimately argues for the distinctiveness of elements of that thought and practice in comparison to the Buddhist cultures of Sri Lanka and Laos.After situating the Shwegyin within the history of Buddhist monasticism more generally, and within the vicissitudes of modern Burmese political history, the book proceeds along two scholarly avenues. It adopts an interdisciplinary method with attention to biographical, administrative, doctrinal, and ethnographic evidence. Theoretically, the book engages scholarly discussion about "traditions" and their "traditionalisms" and advances a specific type of interpretive approach built on bringing the viewpoints and practices of the Shwegyin into conversation with the enterprise of understanding larger historical and cultural patterns in the Buddhist societies of South and Southeast Asia. 410 0$aReligion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ;$v50. 606 $aMonastic and religious life (Buddhism)$zBurma 606 $aReligion and sociology$zBurma 606 $aMonastic and religious life (Buddhism)$zBurma$xHistory 610 $aBuddhism. 610 $aBurma. 610 $aMonasticism. 610 $aMyanmar. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aShwegyin. 615 0$aMonastic and religious life (Buddhism) 615 0$aReligion and sociology 615 0$aMonastic and religious life (Buddhism)$xHistory. 676 $a294.3/65709591 700 $aCarbine$b Jason A.$f1971-$0905593 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781796403321 996 $aSons of the Buddha$93817235 997 $aUNINA