• The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Author: SwearerDonald K., 1934-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Albany
    Published: State University of New York Press;
    Year of Publication: c2010
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 304 p.)ill. :
    Series: SUNY series in religious studies
    Subject: Buddhism - Social aspects - Southeast Asia -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781438432526/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index
    ISBN: 9781438432526electronic bk.
    ISBN: 1438432526electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9781438432519hbk.
    ISBN: 1438432518hbk.
    ISBN: 9781438432502pbk.
    ISBN: 143843250Xpbk.
    Content Note: Pt. 1. : The popular tradition. Ideal action ; Ritual occasions, merit, and the appropiation of power ; Festivals ; Rites of passage -- pt.2. Buddhism and the State. Asoka, the exemplary Buddhist ruler ; kingsand cosmology ; the Cosmological Scheme of the Three Worlds ; the Buddha as cosmocrator ; Modern nationalism and Buddhism -- pt. 3. Buddhism and Modernization. The changing role of themonk ; Reforming the Tradition ; the changing role of the laity ; Women and Buddhism ; Buddhism andthe West -- postscript -- Appendix 1: Sigalaka Sutta : Code of lay ethics -- Appendix 2. Borobudur
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