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The lovelorn ghost and the magical monk : practicing Buddhism in modern Thailand / Justin Thomas McDaniel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT11864332Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0231527543
  • 9780231527545
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lovelorn ghost and the magical monk.DDC classification:
  • 306.6/94309593 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ566 .M38 2011
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Monks and Kings -- Texts and Magic -- Rituals and Liturgies -- Art and Objects.
Summary: "Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures ... Listening to popular Thai Buddhist ghost stories, visiting crowded shrines and temples, he finds concepts of attachment, love, wealth, beauty, entertainment, graciousness, security, and nationalism all spring from engagement with the ghost and the monk and are as vital to the making of Thai Buddhism as venerating the Buddha himself."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-313) and index.

Monks and Kings -- Texts and Magic -- Rituals and Liturgies -- Art and Objects.

"Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures ... Listening to popular Thai Buddhist ghost stories, visiting crowded shrines and temples, he finds concepts of attachment, love, wealth, beauty, entertainment, graciousness, security, and nationalism all spring from engagement with the ghost and the monk and are as vital to the making of Thai Buddhism as venerating the Buddha himself."--Jacket.

Print version record.

In English.