Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Berkwitz, Stephen C.; Thompson, Ashley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Among one of the older sub-fields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravada Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new approaches and engaging new subject matter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351026659
• Artikelnr.: 63429033

Autorenporträt

Stephen C. Berkwitz is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, Missouri State University, USA. His research is focused on the literature and cultural history of Sri Lankan Buddhism. He has published South Asian Buddhism: A Survey (Routledge 2009) and is the editor of the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism series. Ashley Thompson is Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art at SOAS, University of London, UK. She is a specialist in Southeast Asian Cultural Histories, with particular expertise on premodern Cambodian arts. Her most recent monograph is Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (Routledge 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I - Ideas/Ideals 1. "THERAVADA": Sectarianism and Diversity in Mahavihara Historiography 2. PALI: Its Place in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition 3. CIRCULATIONS: Linked Spaces and Divergent Temporalities in the Pali World 4. STATECRAFT: From Buddhist Kingship to Modern States 5. REFORM: Ideas and Events in Modern Theravada Reformism 6. TRADITION: Nuns and "Theravada" in Sri Lanka PART II - Practices/Persons 7. MERIT: Ritual Giving and Its Cultural Meditations 8. MEDITATION: Techniques and Processes of Transformation 9. REPETITION: Pali Iterations of Ritual Commitment, Commentarial Refrain, and Assiduous Practice 10. FILIAL PIETY: Shades of Difference across Theravadin traditions 11. LAITY: Status, Role and Practice in Theravada 12. DISCIPLINE: Beyond the Vinaya 13. FUNERALS: Changing Funerary Practices PART III - Texts/Teachings 14. CANONS: Authoritative Texts of the Therava sa 15. ABHIDHAMMA: Theravada Thought in Relation to Sarvastivada Thought 16. VA SA: History and Lineage in the Theravada 17. MERIT: Ten Ways of Making Merit in Theravada Exegetical Literature and Contemporary Sri Lanka 18. BILINGUALISM: Theravada Bitexts across South and Southeast Asia PART IV - Images/Imaginations 19. VISUAL NARRATIVES: Buddha Life Stories in the 'Medieval Theravada' of Southeast Asia 20. ICONS: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravadin Art 21. AFFECT: Notes from Contemporary Southeast Asian Visual Culture 22. DEITIES: Supernatural Forces in Theravada Buddhist Religious Cultures 23. MONS: Creating a Narrative of the Origins of Theravada