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The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia / Donald K. Swearer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swearer, Donald K., 1934-
- Series:
- SUNY series in religious studies.
- SUNY series in religious studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--Social aspects--Southeast Asia.
- Buddhism.
- Southeast Asia--Religious life and customs.
- Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438432526
- 1438432526
- 9781441636188
- 1441636188
- OCLC:
- 592756142
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