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The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia (SUNY Series in Religious Studies) [2 edition] |
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Swearer, Donald K. (著)
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| Date | 2010.02.23 |
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| Pages | 304 |
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| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
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http://www.sunypress.edu/
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| Location | Albany, NY, US [奧爾巴尼, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Second edition.
Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School. He is the author or editor of several books, including Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand. |
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| Abstract | This book is a remarkable synthesis and empathetic interpretation of Buddhism in Southeast Asia. No other single book matches its depth and breadth, or its balance between scholarly interpretation and sensitive first person portrayal. The author focuses his analysis on Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia as a dynamic, complex system of thought and practice imbedded in the respective cultures, societies, and histories of Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The book discusses three distinct but interrelated aspects of this system: the popular tradition in terms of paradigms of ideal action, rituals, festivals, and rites of passage; Buddhism as civic religion in terms of King Asoka as the paradigmatic Buddhist monarch, cosmology and kingship, and Buddhism and the modern nation state; and modern transformations of the tradition in terms of the changing roles of the monk and the laity, modern reform movements, and Buddhism in the West. |
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| Table of contents | Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. THE POPULAR TRADITION
Ideal Action
Ritual Occasions, Merit, and the Appropriation of Power
Festivals
Rites of Passage
PART II. 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
PART III. 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 Sigalaka Sutta: Code of Lay Ethics
Appendix 2 Borobudur
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index |
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| ISBN | 9781438432502 (pbk); 143843250X (pbk); 9781438432519 (Hardcover) |
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| Hits | 416 |
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| Created date | 2010.12.15 |
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| Modified date | 2024.07.10 |
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