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The Buddhist Saints of the Forest (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Ant
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- Subject
- Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- ISBN
- 9780521277877
- Subject Area
- Religion, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1984
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521277876
ISBN-13
9780521277877
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1234927
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Ser.
Publication Year
1984
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
83-015113
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series Volume Number
Series Number 49
Lc Classification Number
Bq554
Table of Content
1. Introduction; Part I. The arahant and the Path of Meditation: 2. The Buddhist conception of the arahant; 3. The Path of Purification: the ascetic practices; 4. The stages and rewards of Buddhist meditation; 5. The forest-monk tradition in Southeast Asia: a historical backdrop; Part II. The hagiography of a Buddhist saint: text and context; the politics of sectarianism: 6. The biography of a modern saint; 7. The Buddha's life as paradigm; 8. The ordering principles behind Buddhist saintly biography; 9. The disciples of the Master; 10. The biographer as exemplary forest-monk, meditator, and teacher; 11. Sectarianism and the sponsorship of meditation; 12. The Mandnikdi sect's propagation of lay meditation; 13. The center-periphery dialectic: the Mahathat and Bovonniwet sponsorship of meditation compared; Part III. The cult of amulets: the objectification and transmission of charisma: 14. The cult of images and amulets; 15. An enumeration of historic and popular amulets; 16. The 'likeness' of the image to the original Buddha: the case of the Shillala Buddha; 17. The process of sacralizing images and amulets: the transfer of power by monks; 18. Amulets blessed by contemporary forest saints; 19. Saints on cosmic mountains; Part IV. Conceptual and theoretical clarifications: 20. A commentary on millennial Buddhism in Thailand and Burma; 21. The sources of charismatic leadership: Max Weber revisited; 22. The objectification of charisma and the fetishism of objects
Copyright Date
1984
Dewey Decimal
294.3/657/09593
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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