Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia
Author | : Donald K. Swearer |
Publisher | : Anima Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald K. Swearer |
Publisher | : Anima Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arvind Kumar Singh |
Publisher | : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 9788175331662 |
Southeast asia consists of two geographic regions: the Asian mainland, and island arcs and archipelagoes to the east and southeast.The mainland section consits of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.The maritime section consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.Buddhism is the main religion in Southeast Asia. Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia,Laos,Myanmar are Buddhist countries.This book has some intial chapters about the Buddhism namely, Southeast Asia: An Introduction,Buddhism in Southeast Asia etc.This book further goes to trace Buddhism in each of the Southeast Asian countries.How Buddhism has transformed the society and the customs and rituals of the Buddhist society has been given in this book.This book concludes with chapters on Buddhism in the Philippines and Singapore and Buddhism in the West.
Author | : Donald K. Swearer |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438432526 |
An unparalleled portrait, Donald K. Swearer's Buddhist World of Southeast Asia has been a key source for all those interested in the Theravada homelands since the work's publication in 1995. Expanded and updated, the second edition offers this wide ranging account for readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Swearer shows Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia to be a dynamic, complex system of thought and practice embedded in the cultures, societies, and histories of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The work focuses on three distinct yet interrelated aspects of this milieu. The first is the popular tradition of life models personified in myths and legends, rites of passage, festival celebrations, and ritual occasions. The second deals with Buddhism and the state, illustrating how King Asoka serves as the paradigmatic Buddhist monarch, discussing the relationship of cosmology and kingship, and detailing the rise of charismatic Buddhist political leaders in the postcolonial period. The third is the modern transformation of Buddhism: the changing roles of monks and laity, modern reform movements, the role of women, and Buddhism in the West.
Author | : Amitav Acharya |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801466342 |
Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War struggle against communism but also an organization that reflects indigenous traditions. Although Acharya deploys the notion of "imagined community" to examine the changes, especially since the Cold War, in the significance of ASEAN dealings for a regional identity, he insists that "imagination" is itself not a neutral but rather a culturally variable concept. The regional imagination in Southeast Asia imagines a community of nations different from NAFTA or NATO, the OAU, or the European Union. In this new edition of a book first published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Acharya updates developments in the region through the first decade of the new century: the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor. Acharya argues in this important book for the crucial importance of regionalism in a different part of the world.
Author | : Donald K. Swearer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781441636188 |
A wide-ranging, readable account of the Theravada Buddhist thought and practice in the Southeast Asian societies of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.
Author | : D. Christian Lammerts |
Publisher | : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9814762059 |
The study of historical Buddhism in premodern and early modern Southeast Asia stands at an exciting and transformative juncture. Interdisciplinary scholarship is marked by a commitment to the careful examination of local and vernacular expressions of Buddhist culture as well as to reconsiderations of long-standing questions concerning the diffusion of and relationships among varied texts, forms of representation, and religious identities, ideas, and practices. The twelve essays in this collection, written by leading scholars in Buddhist Studies and Southeast Asian history, epigraphy, and archaeology, comprise the latest research in the field to deal with the dynamics of mainland and (pen)insular Buddhism between the sixth and nineteenth centuries C.E. Drawing on new manuscript sources, inscriptions, and archaeological data, they investigate the intellectual, ritual, institutional, sociopolitical, aesthetic, and literary diversity of local Buddhisms, and explore their connected histories and contributions to the production of intraregional and transregional Buddhist geographies.
Author | : Yoneo Ishii |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1107003881 |
Death rituals and Buddhist imagery of the afterlife have been central to the development and spread of Buddhism as a social and textual tradition. Bringing together ethnographic, historical and theoretically informed accounts, the book presents in-depth studies of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and China.
Author | : Donny Gahral Adian |
Publisher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion and culture |
ISBN | : 1565182502 |
Author | : Trevor Ling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
There is more than one sort of Buddhism, even within Southeast Asia. The word "Buddhism", in an unspecified sense, has very little heuristic value, and can be a source of confusion in comparative studies within the Southeast Asian region. Buddhisms are in most cases "country-specific". Where regularities in Buddhist polity and Buddhist social action are found in a given cultural region these may have to be accounted for, not simply by being ascribed to one Buddhist tradition but by similarities of social organization and culture within the region. Major differentiations occur at national levels, that is, at the level of the various countries of Southeast Asia. From the earliest period of Buddhism's history it appears that a certain tension existed between Buddhist practitioners and political rulers. It is with some of these major national or local variant forms of Buddhism in Southeast Asia that the present work is concerned. -- Front book flap.