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Northeast Thai-Lao Theravada Buddhism: Peripheral, Central, or Varietal? |
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Lefferts, Leedom (著)
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Journal of Global South Studies
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| Volume | v.34 n.2 Fall |
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| Date | 2017 |
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| Pages | 225 - 248 |
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| Publisher | University of Florida Press |
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https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/
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| Location | Gainesville, FL, US [蓋恩斯維爾, 佛羅里達州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | 1. The Subtitle of the Journal: Focus on Asia: A Confluence of Tradition and Dynamism.
2. Author Affiliation: University of North Carolina, USA. |
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| Abstract | The Thai-Lao population of Northeast Thailand, twenty-two million in a national population of sixty-eight million, live a paradox. While they are the Kingdom’s single, largest ethnic group, they are an unvoiced minority subjected to a documented history of subordination, discrimination, colonization, and prejudice. This paper, following Tsing’s suggestion that religion provides a mechanism by which minorities can express agency, proposes that the Thai-Lao have cultivated a variant of Theravada Buddhism best understood in its own terms. Central to this is the evolution of the Bun Phra Wet, a festival celebrating the penultimate life of the Buddha’s karma. While the Vessantara birth story on which the Phra Wet festival is based is well-known throughout the Buddhist world, no other variant of Theravada Buddhist expounds on it as do the Thai-Lao, celebrating the agency of citizens to certify the legitimacy of the ruler. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 225
Frameworks 227
Theories 228
Methods 230
A Partial Parsing of Various Texts 233
The Story and Some of Its Themes 235
Reading the Performances 237
Conclusion 244
NOTES 245 |
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| ISSN | 24761397 (P); 24761419 (E) |
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| Created date | 2025.03.06 |
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| Modified date | 2025.03.10 |
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