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| The Role of Sasana Reform in Burmese History: Econmic Dimensions of a Religious Purification | ||
| 作者 | Aung-Thwin, M. |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.38 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 1979.08 |
| 頁次 | 671 - 688 |
| 出版者 | Association for Asian Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.asian-studies.org/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 123 |
| 摘要 | Throughout Burmese history people donated money, land, and labor to the sangha in the hope of acquiring merit and ensuring rebirth in a better existence. Each dynasty was confronted with the flow of wealth from state properties and taxable public holdings to tax-free sanghika estates. Since all religious donations were given in perpetuity, and so were cumulative, the pattern had serious economic consequences. It also posed an ideological dilemma for the monarch: while he was supposed to be the major benefactor of the Religion, the state needed these essential resources for its own survival. In order to halt this trend temporarily, or reverse it within the confines of legitimate Buddhist kingship, Burmese kings used sasana reform, a religious ritual for purifying the sangha; sasana reform was structurally related to economic factors. Although this paper is concerned primarily with Burma, evidence is provided to suggest that similar economic pressures may have been responsible for sasana reform in India, Ceylon, and Thailand. |
| 目次 | The Problem 671 The Dynastic Cycle 673 The Institutional Setting 674 Economic Effects of the Belief's System 676 Implications of Reform Procedures 679 The Royal Dilemma 684 Economic Implications of Sasana Reform in Other Theracasa Buddhist Societies 686 |
| ISSN | 00219118 (P); 17520401 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 237 |
| 建檔日期 | 1998.04.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.03.16 |
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