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| Renunciation and Power: The Quest for Sainthood in Contemporary Burma | ||
| 作者 | Rozenberg, Guillaume (著) ; Hackett, Jessica L. (譯) |
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| 出版日期 | 2010.08.25 |
| 頁次 | 180 |
| 出版者 | Yale University Southeast Asia Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-asia/ |
| 出版地 | New Haven, CT, US [紐哈芬市, 康乃狄克州, 美國] |
| 叢書名 | Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series |
| 叢書號 | 59 |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliations: Former Researcher, French National Center of Scientific Research; Member, Center of Social Anthropology (LISST) , Toulouse, France. |
| 摘要 | This monograph explores a seemingly paradoxical figure: the Burmese Buddhist saint who departs for the forest to combine harsh asceticism with radical world renunciation, yet also seeks active involvement in the affairs of society. Examining the trajectory and work of eight living monks committed to the quest for salvation, Rozenberg contradicts representations of Theravāda Buddhist saints as single-minded pursuers of nirvana. On the contrary, he shows how work for the temporal welfare and spiritual advancement of all is integral to a Burmese saint’s identity. The saint predicts winning lottery numbers, redistributes goods donated to him, and develops building complexes essential to the spread of Buddhism. Throughout the book, otherwise obscure notions of spiritual power are reconsidered and explicated in a Burmese context. Guillaume Rozenberg has been a researcher with the French National Center of Scientific Research since 2004, and is a member of the Center of Social Anthropology (lisst ) in Toulouse, France. His research focuses on figures of Buddhist sainthood and related cults in contemporary Burma. |
| ISBN | 9780938692928 (pbc); 0938692925 (pbc) |
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| 點閱次數 | 561 |
| 建檔日期 | 2011.03.29 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.12.25 |
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