| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series in Buddhist studies |
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SUNY series in Buddhist studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction / John Clifford Holt and Jacob N. Kinnard -- 1. Communal Karma and Karmic Community in Theravada Buddhist History / Jonathan S. Walters -- 2. Toward a Theory of Buddhist Queenship : The Legend of Asandhimitta / John S. Strong -- 3. Beggars Can Be Choosers : Mahakassapa as a Selective Eater of Offerings / Liz Wilson -- 4. The Insight Guide to Hell : Mahamoggallana and Theravada Buddhist Cosmology / Julie Gifford -- 5. When the Buddha Sued Visnu / Jacob N. Kinnard -- 6. Minister of Defense : The Visnu Controversy in Contemporary Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt -- 7. Localizing Lineage : Importing Higher Ordination in Theravadin South and Southeast Asia / Anne M. Blackburn -- 8. Preacher as Poet : Poetic Preaching as a Monastic Strategy in Constituting Buddhist Communities in Modern Sri Lanka and Thailand / Mahinda Deegalle -- 9. "For Those Who Are Ignorant" : A Study of the Bauddha Adahilla / Carol S. Anderson -- 10. Interpretive Strategies for Seeing the Body of the Buddha / James R. Egge |
| Summary |
"Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravada Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravada communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia
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Buddhism -- Social aspects -- South Asia
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Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)
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Theravāda Buddhism -- History -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Theravada.
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Buddhism -- Social aspects
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Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)
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Theravāda Buddhism
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South Asia
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Southeast Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holt, John, 1948-
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Kinnard, Jacob N
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Walters, Jonathan S. (Jonathan Stone), 1961-
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| ISBN |
141753124X |
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9781417531240 |
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0791456919 |
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9780791456910 |
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0791456927 |
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9780791456927 |
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0791487059 |
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9780791487051 |
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