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



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Autore: Carbine Jason A. <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sons of the Buddha [[electronic resource] ] : continuities and ruptures in a Burmese monastic tradition / / Jason A. Carbine Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
Disciplina: 294.3/65709591
Soggetto topico: Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) - Burma
Religion and sociology - Burma
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) - Burma - History
Soggetto non controllato: Buddhism
Burma
Monasticism
Myanmar
Religion
Shwegyin
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Sons of the Buddha  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-16671-2
9786613166715
3-11-025410-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781796403321
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Serie: Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; ; 50.