The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia (Suny Series in Religion)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
079142460X
ISBN 13
9780791424605
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
258 pages
Subject
Buddhism Social aspects Southeast Asia.
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Abstract
ONE: THE POPULAR TRADITION: INCLUSIVE SYNCRETISM: Ideal action -- Ritual occasions, merit, and the appropiation of power -- Festivals -- Rites of passage -- TWO: BUDDHISM AS CIVIL RELIGION: POLITICAL LEGITIMATION AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION: Asoka, the exemplary Buddhist ruler -- Kings and cosmology -- The Buddha as cosmocrator -- Modern nationalism and Buddhism -- THREE: MODERNIZATION: THE DYNAMIC OF TRADITION AND CHANGE: The changing role of the monk -- The changing role of the laity -- Buddhism and the West -- Postscript -- Appendix 1: Sigalaka Sutta: code of lay ethics -- Appendix 2: Audio visual bibliography -- Appendix 3: Borobudur.
Description
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Biblio Notes
30896318
Number of Copies
1