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| Monks’ Lives Shaped by Food: A Case Study in Myanmar | ||
| 作者 | Kuramoto, Ryōsuke (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Religious Studies in Japan |
| 卷期 | v.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 47 - 64 |
| 出版者 | Japanese Association for Religious Studies=Nihon Shūkyō Gakkai=日本宗教学会 |
| 出版者網址 | https://jpars.org/ |
| 出版地 | 東京, 日本 [Tokyo, Japan] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Kuramoto Ryōsuke is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. |
| 關鍵詞 | Theravāda Buddhism; Myanmar; monks; monasteries; Vinaya; religion; secular |
| 摘要 | Theravāda Buddhist monks are strictly limited by the Vinaya (monks’ rules) with regard to their way of acquiring, owning, and consuming food. The most important principle for them is to live as beggars, and to depend on dāna (religious gifts) given by lay people. In Theravāda Buddhism, this way of life is thought to be the optimum approach, though not the only one, to achieve nibbāna (the doctrinal ideal of Theravāda Buddhism). Monks, however, cannot live without any food. This is an enormous dilemma for monks. How do monks deal with this food problem? How does this problem influence the religious practice of monks? In this paper, I adopt an anthropological approach that is characterized by fieldwork and that aims to reveal processes of trial and error in the monks’ lives, taking Myanmar as an example. By doing this, I try to clarify one side of the religious practice of monks—for example, the reason why they become monks, the way their lives develop, the way a monastery is organized, and so on. These facts cannot be adequately discussed if we are particular about the distinction between the words “religion” and “secular,” which are ideas of modern European origin. |
| 目次 | keywords 47 Method for Acquiring Food 50 The environment surrounding monasteries 50 Popular Monks Who Draw Dāna 51 Food Acquiring Activities of Urban Monasteries 53 Monks’ Life Course Formed by Food 54 The Method for Owning and Consuming Food 56 The Structure of a Monastery 57 The Problem of the Organization of a Monastery 60 Conclusion 63 References 64 |
| ISSN | 21869952 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 98 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.09.14 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.09.14 |
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