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Sickness, Healing, and Religious Vocation: Alternative Choices at a Theravāda Buddhist Nunnery |
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Author |
Salgado, Nirmala S. (著)
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Source |
Ethnology
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Volume | v.36 n.3 Summer |
Date | 1997 |
Pages | 213 - 226 |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh- Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education |
Publisher Url |
http://www.pitt.edu/about.html
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Location | Pittsburgh, PA, US [匹茲堡, 賓夕法尼亞州, 美國] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | Author Affiliation: Augustana College, USA. |
Keyword | Sri Lanka; gender; possession; nuns; ecstasy; asceticism; Theravāda Buddhism; sickness; healing; trance |
Abstract | This essay examines alternative religious vocations and choices of cures that are open to women in the Sri Lankan Buddhist context. The focus of the investigation is a Theravāda Buddhist hermitage that was studied over an eleven-year period. The article presents case histories of nuns who are representative of the individuals living at the hermitage, and demonstrates how the illnesses they suffer concurrently with their ecstatic trances (interpreted as spirit possession) receive meaning and can be cured within the framework of Buddhist asceticism in Sri Lanka. |
Table of contents | STATUS AMBIGUITY AND GENDER IN THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM 215 THE DELGAHAWATTE HERMITAGE 216 Ascetic Buddhist Nuns: Guttā Māṇiyo and Mallikā Māṇiyo 217 Ecstatic Buddhist Nuns 219 COMMENTS 222 CONCLUSION 224 NOTES 225 BIBLIOGRAPHY 226 |
ISSN | 00141828 (P) |
DOI | 10.2307/3773986 |
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Created date | 2025.02.19 |
Modified date | 2025.02.21 |

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