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Rites of Passage, Liminality and Communitas in Chinese Buddhist 'Triple Platform Ordination'=漢傳佛教「三壇大戒」中之通過儀式、閾限性以及共同體
Author Orsborn, Matthew Bryan (著)=歐慧峰 (au.)
Source 玄奘佛學研究=Hsuan Chuang Journal of Buddhism Studies
Volumen.42
Date2024.09
Pages59 - 89
Publisher玄奘大學
Publisher Url http://ird.hcu.edu.tw/front/bin/home.phtml
Location新竹市, 臺灣 [Hsinchu shih, Taiwan]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
KeywordTriple
AbstractVan Gennep's theories of 'rites of passage' and 'liminality,' together with Turner's expansion on these theories into 'communitas,' offer an insightful anthropological lens through which to analyze the Triple Platform Ordination in Chinese Buddhism. Departing from the traditional focus on textual and historical aspects, this paper delves into the actual ordination process through an emic participant-observer perspective, along with ordination manuals, and records of preceptees who have undertaken the ordination platform rites themselves. We find strong evidence for all three of van Gennep's phases: the pre-liminal, the liminal, and the post-liminal reintegrative phase. Turner's notion of liminal communitas, particularly normative communitas, is observable among preceptees, although spontaneous or existential communitas is less evident. The ordination process mirrors profound personal transformation, symbolizing a death to the secular world and a rebirth into the monastic community-a cross-cultural metaphor akin to life and death rites of passage.
Table of contentsChinese Buddhist ordination traditions 61
Retrospective fieldwork as method 63
Rites of passage 66
Is Triple Platform Ordination a ‘rite of passage’? 69
Do liminal preceptee cohorts display ‘communitas’? 76
Liminal metaphors for death and (re)birth 81
Conclusion 84
ISSN18133649 (P)
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Created date2024.12.11
Modified date2024.12.11



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