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| Northeast Thai-Lao Theravada Buddhism: Peripheral, Central, or Varietal? | ||
| 作者 | Lefferts, Leedom (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Global South Studies |
| 卷期 | v.34 n.2 Fall |
| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 頁次 | 225 - 248 |
| 出版者 | University of Florida Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Gainesville, FL, US [蓋恩斯維爾, 佛羅里達州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. The Subtitle of the Journal: Focus on Asia: A Confluence of Tradition and Dynamism. 2. Author Affiliation: University of North Carolina, USA. |
| 摘要 | The Thai-Lao population of Northeast Thailand, twenty-two million in a national population of sixty-eight million, live a paradox. While they are the Kingdom’s single, largest ethnic group, they are an unvoiced minority subjected to a documented history of subordination, discrimination, colonization, and prejudice. This paper, following Tsing’s suggestion that religion provides a mechanism by which minorities can express agency, proposes that the Thai-Lao have cultivated a variant of Theravada Buddhism best understood in its own terms. Central to this is the evolution of the Bun Phra Wet, a festival celebrating the penultimate life of the Buddha’s karma. While the Vessantara birth story on which the Phra Wet festival is based is well-known throughout the Buddhist world, no other variant of Theravada Buddhist expounds on it as do the Thai-Lao, celebrating the agency of citizens to certify the legitimacy of the ruler. |
| 目次 | Introduction 225 Frameworks 227 Theories 228 Methods 230 A Partial Parsing of Various Texts 233 The Story and Some of Its Themes 235 Reading the Performances 237 Conclusion 244 NOTES 245 |
| ISSN | 24761397 (P); 24761419 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 34 |
| 建檔日期 | 2025.03.06 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.03.10 |
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