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Sickness, Healing, and Religious Vocation: Alternative Choices at a Theravāda Buddhist Nunnery
Author Salgado, Nirmala S. (著)
Source Ethnology
Volumev.36 n.3 Summer
Date1997
Pages213 - 226
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh- Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
Publisher Url http://www.pitt.edu/about.html
LocationPittsburgh, 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
NoteAuthor Affiliation: Augustana College, USA.
KeywordSri Lanka; gender; possession; nuns; ecstasy; asceticism; Theravāda Buddhism; sickness; healing; trance
AbstractThis 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 contentsSTATUS 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
ISSN00141828 (P)
DOI10.2307/3773986
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Created date2025.02.19
Modified date2025.02.21



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