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The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism and Millennial Buddhism

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

30.11.2007

Herausgeber

Meyer Fortes + weitere

Verlag

Cambridge Academic

Seitenzahl

432

Maße (L/B/H)

22.9/15.2/2.5 cm

Gewicht

544 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-521-27787-7

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

30.11.2007

Herausgeber

Verlag

Cambridge Academic

Seitenzahl

432

Maße (L/B/H)

22.9/15.2/2.5 cm

Gewicht

544 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-521-27787-7

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  • Produktbild: The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets
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  • 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