Sons of the Buddha

Carbine, Jason A.:
Sons of the Buddha : Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition / Jason A. Carbine. - Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2011. - XVIII, 248 S. - (Religion and Society ; 50)
ISBN 978-3-11-025409-9
EUR 99,95 / US$ 140,00
DDC: 294.365709591
-- Angekündigt für April 2011 --

Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. v
Abbreviations. xii
Figures and Tables. xiii
A Note on the Name Myanmar. xiv
Conventions for Transliterations, etc. xv
Map of Myanmar. xvii
Introduction: From the Śākyamuni Buddha to the Shwegyin Tradition. 1
1. The Shwegyin Tradition and Its Traditionalism. 32
2. Institutional Moorings. 73
3. Classic Ritual Permutations. 107
4. Existential Ruminations. 139
Conclusion: Continuities and Ruptures. 169
Epilogue: A Comment on Continuity and Rupture, from Afar. 188
Appendix A: Figures. 194
Appendix B: Tables. 199
Appendix C: Letter to the Penang Sayadaw. 219
Bibliography. 223
Index of Authors. 236
Index of Burmese Terms. 239
Index of Pali and Sanskrit Terms. 241
Index of Subjects. 244

Autor
Jason A. Carbine, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Whittier College, Calif., USA. Profile page. Homepage.

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