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| The Sacred Geography of Dawei: Buddhism in Peninsular Myanmar (Burma) | ||
| 作者 | Moore, Elizabeth Howard |
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| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.14 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2013.11 |
| 頁次 | 298 - 319 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Elizabeth Howard Moore is a Professor in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, with recent publications including “Place and Space in early Burma: A New Look at ‘Pyu’ Culture” (Journal of the Siam Society 92 [2009]: 1–27); “Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar” (in Blackwell Companion to Asian Art, edited by R. Brown and D. Hutton, 178–200. Blackwell, 2011); and The Pyu Landscape: Collected Articles (Naypyitaw, Myanmar: Department of Archaeology, National Museum and Library 2012). Address: Department of History of Art and Archaeology School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street London WC1H 0XG, UK. |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhas; Buddhism; Tutelaries; Archaeological Chronology; Archaeology |
| 摘要 | The paper opens by recounting the beginnings of Buddhism in Dawei as preserved in local chronicles and sustained in stupas marking the episodes of the chronicle narrative. The chronicles start with a visit of the Buddha whose arrival triggers a series of events bringing together pre-existing tutelary figures, weiza, a hermit and offspring born of a golden fish, culminating in the establishment of the first Buddhist kingdom circa the eighth to tenth century CE. The enshrinement of sacred hairs gifted by the Buddha also includes patronage by a king of the ‘Suvaṇṇabhūmi’ lineage. Associated with the monks Sona and Uttara from Sri Lanka sent by King Asoka's son Mahinda, ‘Suvaṇṇabhūmi’ literally can refer to the archaeology of Thaton, a walled site in the present day Mon State, or, as is the case here, more widely to the missionary tradition associated with Asoka (Sao Saimong Mengrai 1976). The third story in the establishment of the Buddhist king at Thagara is the longest of the chronicle, the tale of a royal hunter who failed to capture a golden peacock for the queen. The hunter became a hermit living by a pond with a golden fish and as he urinated in the pond, two children were born from the fish. The boy becomes the first Buddhist king of Thagara, 11 km north of Dawei, where artefacts from survey and excavation confirm the chronology of the chronicle, with the closest archaeological parallels found not at the ancient sites of the Mon State but to the first millennium CE Buddhist ‘Pyu’ heritage of Upper Myanmar which is notably absent in the chronicle compilation. |
| 目次 | The Dawei chronicle 299 The founding narrative: Buddha and the hermit 300 Mi Ohn Taung (Indriya Mountain) 302 The role of the hermit Gawinanda 303 Comparing Gawinanda and Gawampati 304 Mon and Pyu material culture 306 Selected archaeological sites 308 Kalein Aung (Aungthawadi) 308 Mi-ohn-taung 309 Shin Dhat Weh 310 Thagara 311 Conclusion 314 Notes 316 References 316 |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2013.832084 |
| 點閱次數 | 68 |
| 建檔日期 | 2014.09.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.07.14 |
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