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Is Merit in the Milk Powder? Pursuing Punna in Contemporary Sri Lanka |
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Samuels, Jeffrey
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Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.9 n.1 |
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| Date | 2008.05 |
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| Pages | 123 - 147 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Virtues (Buddhism); Monasticism & Religious Orders; Emotions (Psychology); Intention -- Religious Aspects Religious Aspects |
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| Abstract | This article examines merit making in contemporary Sri Lankan practice. Exploring the role of emotions, most generally defined as “happiness in the heart/mind,” in this important Buddhist activity, this article seeks not only to move beyond a more mechanical view of merit making as generalized exchange, but also to introduce an affective quality to the notion of intention (cetan). Finally, this article questions the tendency to judge Buddhist behavior and appearance solely against the norms set forth in the Buddhist monastic code by investigating how people's histories, experiences, and backgrounds shape their own understandings of who constitutes an ideal monastic. |
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| Table of contents | Conceptions of meritorious giving: compromising the ethic of intention 125
Happiness in the Hita: locating a place for the emotions in meritorious giving 127
The supremacy of intention and the suitable recipient: moving beyond compromises, tensions, and acute problems 130
Who is the best field of merit? Reconsidering the virtuous recipient in Sinhalese Buddhist practice 130
Reconsidering the suitable recipient: views of lay people 131
Reconsidering the suitable recipient: views of monastics 134
Conclusion 136
Acknowledgement 137
Notes 137
References 145
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639940802312741 |
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| Hits | 475 |
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| Created date | 2009.03.06 |
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| Modified date | 2017.06.28 |
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