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The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia
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Title
The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia [electronic resource] / Donald K. Swearer.
ISBN
1438432526
9781438432526
143843250X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1438432518 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438432502 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781438432519 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Edition
2nd ed.
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 304 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Philosophy and Religion Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index.
Contents
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 ; kings and 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 the monk ; Reforming the Tradition ; the changing role of the laity ; Women and Buddhism ; Buddhism and the West
postscript
Appendix 1: Sigālaka Sutta : Code of lay ethics
Appendix 2. Borobudur.
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