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Sons of the Buddha : Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition / Jason A. Carbine.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 50Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110254099
  • 9783110254105
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.65709591 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • BQ6160.B93 C37 2011
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures and Tables -- A Note on the Name Myanmar -- Conventions for Transliterations, etc. -- Map of Myanmar -- Introduction: From the kyamuni Buddha to the Shwegyin Tradition -- Chapter One: The Shwegyin Tradition and Its Traditionalism -- Chapter Two: Institutional Moorings -- Chapter Three: Classic Ritual Permutations -- Chapter Four: Existential Ruminations -- Conclusion: Continuities and Ruptures -- Epilogue: A Comment on Continuity and Rupture, from Afar -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Burmese Terms -- Index of Pali and Sanskrit Terms -- Index of Subjects
Summary: Intended as a methodological and theoretical contribution to the study of religion and society, this book examines Buddhist monasticism in Myanmar. The book focuses on the Shwegyin, one of the most important but least understood monastic groups in the country. Analyzing the group as a tradition constructed around ideas of continuity and disruption/rupture, the study illuminates key aspects of monastic and wider Burmese Buddhist thought and practice, and ultimately argues for the distinctiveness of elements of that thought and practice in comparison to the Buddhist cultures of Sri Lanka and Laos.After situating the Shwegyin within the history of Buddhist monasticism more generally, and within the vicissitudes of modern Burmese political history, the book proceeds along two scholarly avenues. It adopts an interdisciplinary method with attention to biographical, administrative, doctrinal, and ethnographic evidence. Theoretically, the book engages scholarly discussion about “traditions” and their “traditionalisms” and advances a specific type of interpretive approach built on bringing the viewpoints and practices of the Shwegyin into conversation with the enterprise of understanding larger historical and cultural patterns in the Buddhist societies of South and Southeast Asia.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures and Tables -- A Note on the Name Myanmar -- Conventions for Transliterations, etc. -- Map of Myanmar -- Introduction: From the kyamuni Buddha to the Shwegyin Tradition -- Chapter One: The Shwegyin Tradition and Its Traditionalism -- Chapter Two: Institutional Moorings -- Chapter Three: Classic Ritual Permutations -- Chapter Four: Existential Ruminations -- Conclusion: Continuities and Ruptures -- Epilogue: A Comment on Continuity and Rupture, from Afar -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Burmese Terms -- Index of Pali and Sanskrit Terms -- Index of Subjects

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Intended as a methodological and theoretical contribution to the study of religion and society, this book examines Buddhist monasticism in Myanmar. The book focuses on the Shwegyin, one of the most important but least understood monastic groups in the country. Analyzing the group as a tradition constructed around ideas of continuity and disruption/rupture, the study illuminates key aspects of monastic and wider Burmese Buddhist thought and practice, and ultimately argues for the distinctiveness of elements of that thought and practice in comparison to the Buddhist cultures of Sri Lanka and Laos.After situating the Shwegyin within the history of Buddhist monasticism more generally, and within the vicissitudes of modern Burmese political history, the book proceeds along two scholarly avenues. It adopts an interdisciplinary method with attention to biographical, administrative, doctrinal, and ethnographic evidence. Theoretically, the book engages scholarly discussion about “traditions” and their “traditionalisms” and advances a specific type of interpretive approach built on bringing the viewpoints and practices of the Shwegyin into conversation with the enterprise of understanding larger historical and cultural patterns in the Buddhist societies of South and Southeast Asia.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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