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Author : Paul T. Cohen
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ISBN 13 : 9788776946449
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Download or read book Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism written by Paul T. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul T. Cohen
Publisher : Nias Studies in Asian Topics
ISBN 13 : 9788776941956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism written by Paul T. Cohen and published by Nias Studies in Asian Topics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In association with the Center for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), Chiang Mai University."
Author : Hiroko Kawanami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350124192
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Culture of Giving in Myanmar written by Hiroko Kawanami and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can people living in one of the poorest countries in the world be among the most charitable? In this book, Hiroko Kawanami examines the culture of giving in Myanmar, and explores the pivotal role that Buddhist monastic members occupy in creating a platform for civil society. Despite having at one time been listed as one of the poorest countries in the world in GNP terms, Myanmar has topped a global generosity list for the past four years with more than 90 percent of the population engaged in 'giving' activities. This book explores the close relationship that Buddhists share with the monastic community in Myanmar, extending observations of this relationship into an understanding of wider Buddhist cultures. It then examines how deeply the reciprocal transactions of giving and receiving in society – or interdependent living – are implicated in the Buddhist faith. The Culture of Giving in Myanmar fills a gap in research on Buddhist offerings in Myanmar, and is an important contribution to the growing field of Myanmar studies and anthropology of Buddhism.
Author : Môhan Wijayaratna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521367080
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monastic Life written by Môhan Wijayaratna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1991 book provides a brief yet detailed account of the ideal way of life prescribed for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Pali texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism. The author describes the way in which the Buddha's disciples institutionalized his teachings about such things as food, dress, money, chastity, solitude and discipleship. This tradition represents an ideal of religious life that has been followed in South and Southeast Asia for over two thousand years. In previous writing on the early period of Buddhist monasticism, scholars have usually tried to give an historical account of the evolution of the monastic order, and so have seen the extant Vinaya texts as coming from distinct historical periods. This book takes a different approach by presenting a synchronic account, which allows the author to show that sources are in fact predominantly consistent and coherent.
Author : Andrew Harding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108830870
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thai Legal History written by Andrew Harding and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to provide a broad coverage of Thai legal history in the English language.
Author : Alan Robert Lopez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137540869
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Buddhist Revivalist Movements written by Alan Robert Lopez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a comparative investigation of the affinities and differences of two of the most dynamic currents in World Buddhism: Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement. Defying differences in denomination, culture, and historical epochs, these schools revived an unfettered quest for enlightenment and proceeded to independently forge like practices and doctrines. The author examines the teaching gambits and tactics, the methods of practice, the place and story line of teacher biography, and the nature and role of the awakening experience, revealing similar forms deriving from an uncompromising pursuit of awaking, the insistence on self-cultivation, and the preeminent role of the charismatic master. Offering a pertinent review of their encounters with modernism, the book provides a new coherence to these seemingly disparate movements, opening up new avenues for scholars and possibilities for practitioners.
Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156529
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Art of Not Being Governed written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
Author : Aditya Bharadwaj
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785332317
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conceptions written by Aditya Bharadwaj and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These ‘conceptions’ are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This longitudinal study is situated in a number of diverse locales which, when taken together, unravel the complex nature of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India.
Author : Philip Hirsch
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089642498
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tracks and Traces written by Philip Hirsch and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the threads that tie together an understanding of Thailand as a dynamic and rapidly changing society, through an examination of the work of one major scholar of the country, Andrew Turton. Turton's anthropological studies of Thailand cover a wide spectrum from politics and economy to ritual and culture, and have been crucial in shaping evolving understandings of Thai society. In this collection, ten leading specialists on Thailand from a variety of disciplines critically consider aspects of Turton's work in relation to the changing nature of different aspects of Thai society. The book tracks the links between past and present scholarship, examines the contextuality of scholarship in its times, and sheds light on the current situation in Thailand.
Author : Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521277877
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets written by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-06-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the country's periphery, but once recognized as holy men endowed with charisma, they became the radiating centres of a country-wide cult of amulets. The amulets, blessed by the saints, are avidly sought by royalty, ruling generals, intelligentsia and common folk alike for their alleged powers to influence the success of worldly transactions, whether political, economic, martial or romantic.
