Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : comparative perspectives / edited by Anne M. Blackburn, R. Michael Feener.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feener, R. Michael, editor.

Blackburn, Anne M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)

Other Title:

Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2018.

Summary:

This volume aims to foster interaction between scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies by increasing understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, and ritual practices across Asia and beyond. Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia scrutinizes religious orders (here referring to Sufi?ar?qas and Buddhist monastic and other ritual lineages) that enabled far-flung local communities to be recognized and engaged as part of a broader world of co-religionists, while presenting their traditions and human representatives as attractive and authoritative to new devotees. Contributors to the volume direct their attention toward analogous developments mutually illuminating for both fields of study, drawing readers' attention to the fact that networked persons were not always strongly institutionalized and often moved through Southern Asia and developed local bases without the oversight of complex corporate organizations.

Contents:

Sufis and saṅgha in motion : toward a comparative study of religious orders and networks in southern Asia / Anne M. Blackburn and R. Michael Feener

ʻAbdallāh born ʻUmar ibn Yaḥyā and the Ṭarīqa ʻAlawiyya in the early-nineteenth-century Indonesian archipelago / Ismail Fajrie Alatas

ʻThe itineraries of "Sīhaḷa Monk" Sāralaṅkā : Buddhist interactions in eighteenth-century southern Asia / Alexey Kirichenko

ʻChallenging orders: Ṭarīqas and Muslim society in southeastern India and Laṅkā, ca. 1400-1950 / Torsten Tschacher

ʻWhose orders? : Chinese popular god temple networks and the rise of Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist monasteries in Southeast Asia / Kenneth Dean

ʻSufi "orders" in Southeast Asia : from private devotions to social network and corporate action / Martin van Bruinessen

ʻShaṭṭāriyya Sufi scents : the literary world of the Surakarta Palace in nineteenth-century Java / Nancy K. Florida

ʻNegotiating order in the land of the dragon and the hidden valley of rice : local motives and regional networks in the transmission of new "Tibetan" Buddhist lineages in Bhutan and Sikkim / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa.

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