Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter, Harris, Elizabeth

Автор: Appleton
Название: Jataka Stories in Theravada Buddhism
ISBN: 1138273651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138273658
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Описание: Jataka stories (stories about the previous births of the Buddha) are very popular in Theravada Buddhist countries, where they are found in both canonical texts and later compositions and collections, and are commonly used in sermons, children's books, plays, poetry, temple illustrations, rituals and festivals. Whilst at first glance many of the stories look like common fables or folktales, Buddhist tradition tells us that the stories illustrate the gradual path to perfection exemplified by the Buddha in his previous births, when he was a bodhisatta (buddha-to-be). Jataka stories have had a long and colourful history, closely intertwined with the development of doctrines about the Buddha, the path to buddhahood, and how Buddhists should behave now the Buddha is no more. This book explores the shifting role of the stories in Buddhist doctrine, practice, and creative expression, finally placing this integral Buddhist genre back in the centre of scholarly understandings of the religion.

Автор: Hans-Peter Grosshans, Madlen Krueger, Perry Schmidt-Leukel
Название: Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Myanmar: Contested Identities
ISBN: 1350187461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350187467
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: One of the most comprehensive volumes on Myanmar’s identity politics to date, this book discusses the entanglement of ethnic and religious identities in Myanmar and the challenges presented by its extensive ethnic-religious diversity. Religious and ethnic conjunctions are treated from historical, political, religious and ethnic minority perspectives through both case studies and overview chapters. The book addresses the thorny issue of Buddhist supremacy, Burmese nationalism and ethnic-religious hierarchy, along with reflections on Buddhist, Christian and Muslim communities. Bringing together international scholars and Burmese scholars, this book combines the perspectives of academic observers with those of political activists and religious leaders from different faiths. Through the breadth of its disciplinary approach, its focus on identity issues and its inclusion of insider and outsider perspectives, this book provides new insights into the complex religious situation of Myanmar.

Автор: Gombrich, Richard F.
Название: Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo
ISBN: 0415365090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415365093
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Описание: Widely recognized as the classic introduction to the field, Richard Gombrich`s book shows how Theravada Buddhism has influenced and been influenced by its social surroundings.

Автор: Harris, Elizabeth
Название: Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter
ISBN: 0415371252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415371254
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Автор: Fuller
Название: The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism
ISBN: 0415650496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415650496
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Описание: The notion of `view` or `opinion` (ditthi) as an obstacle to `seeing things as they are` is a central concept in Buddhist thought. Through its argument this book makes a valuable addition to the study of Buddhist philosophy.

Автор: Erik W. Davis, Jason A. Carbine
Название: Simas: Foundations of Buddhist Religion
ISBN: 0824888855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824888855
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Human-fashioned boundaries transform spaces by introducing dualisms, bifurcations, creative symbioses, contradictions, and notions of inclusion and exclusion. The Buddhist boundaries considered in this book come in various shapes and sizes and can be established on land or in bodies of water.

Автор: Collins Steven
Название: Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined
ISBN: 0231197217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231197212
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act.

Автор: Tilakaratne Asanga
Название: Theravada Buddhism: The View of the Elders
ISBN: 0824835964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824835965
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Описание: This book brings to life the age-old religious tradition of Theravada (literally, “view of the elders”) Buddhism as it is found in ancient texts and understood and practiced today in South and Southeast Asia. Following a brief introduction to the life of the historical Buddha and the beginning of his mission, the book examines the Triple Gem (the Buddha, his teachings, and the community of monastic followers) and the basic teachings of the Buddha in the earliest available Pali sources. Basic Buddhist concepts such as dependent co-origination, the four noble truths, the three trainings, and karma and its result are discussed in non-technical language, along with the Buddha’s message on social wellbeing.<br><br>The author goes on to chronicle his own involvement as an observer-participant in “the Theravada world,” where he was born and raised. His is a rare first-hand account of living Theravada Buddhism not only in its traditional habitats, but also in the world at large at the dawn of the twenty-first century. He concludes with a discussion on what is happening to Theravada today across the globe, covering issues such as diaspora Buddhism, women’s Buddhism, and engaged Buddhism. The book’s accessible language and clear explication of Theravada doctrine and texts make this an ideal introduction for the student and general reader.

Автор: Anderson, Carol
Название: Pain and Its Ending
ISBN: 0700710655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700710652
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Автор: Gombrich, Richard F. (university Of Oxford, Uk)
Название: Theravada buddhism
ISBN: 0415365082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415365086
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Описание: Widely recognized as the classic introduction to the field, Richard Gombrich`s book shows how Theravada Buddhism has influenced and been influenced by its social surroundings.

Автор: Thomas A. Borchert
Название: Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China`s Southwest Border
ISBN: 0824866495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824866495
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Описание: Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above—collectively and often simultaneously. Educating Monks examines a minority Buddhist community in Sipsongpann?, a region located on China's southwest border with Myanmar and Laos. Its people, the Dai-lue, are "double minorities": They are recognized by the Chinese state as part of a minority group, and they practice Therav?da Buddhism, a minority form within China, where Mah?y?na Buddhism is the norm. Therav?da has long been the primary training ground for Dai-lue men, and since the return of Buddhism to the area in the years following Mao Zedong's death, the Dai-lue have put many of their resources into providing monastic education for their sons. However, the author's analysis of institutional organization within Sipsongpann?, the governance of religion there, and the movements of monks (revealing the "ethnoscapes" that the monks of Sipsongpann? participate in) points to educational contexts that depend not just on local villagers, but also resources from the local (Communist) government and aid form Chinese Mah?y?na monks and Therav?da monks from Thailand and Myanmar. While the Dai-lue monks draw on these various resources for the development of the sangha, they do not share the same agenda and must continually engage in a careful political dance between villagers who want to revive traditional forms of Buddhism, a Chinese state that is at best indifferent to the continuation of Buddhism, and transnational monks that want to import their own modern forms of Buddhism into the region.Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Dai-lue monks in China, Thailand, and Singapore, this ambitious and sophisticated study will find a ready audience among students and scholars of the anthropology of Buddhism, and religion, education, and transnationalism in Southeast and East Asia.

Название: Early theravadin cambodia
ISBN: 9813251492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813251496
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A crucial reference for historians of Southeast Asia and those with a serious interest in the Buddhism and Buddhist art of Southeast Asia. What explains the spread of Theravada Buddhism? And how is it entangled with the identity shifts that over the next four hundred years gave rise to the Buddhist state now called Cambodia? Early Theravadin Cambodia sheds light on one of the outstanding questions of Southeast Asian history: the nature and timing of major cultural and political shifts in the territory that was to become Cambodia, starting in the 13th century. This important collection challenges the conventional picture of Theravada as taking root in the void left by the collapse of Angkor and its Hindu-Buddhist power structure. Written by a diverse group of scholars from Cambodia, Thailand, the United States, France, Australia, and Japan, this volume is a sustained, collaborative discussion of evidence from art and archaeology, and how it relates to questions of Buddhist history, regional exchange networks, and ethnopolitical identities. Accessibly written and vividly illustrated, the book will be a crucial reference for historians of Southeast Asia and scholars of Buddhism.